The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-11-21
BLUE GLASS REVIVAL.
mn Of the y1eGh Again Being
Treatod by Color Rays.
Nssvsss DssssAiss sid % Have Dsee
1emod3ed u The Light Al
anat&ea 1hEoagh Col

The newest panacee TOR Ills, imAg-
mary and otherwise, h the color bath,
or treatment by associated rays. Fash-
ionable women in New York are taking
1t up, and have turned their boudoirs
into blue glass hospitals for the cure
Of all sorts Of ailments, from . head
ache to case Of typhoid fever.
1t is somewhat paradoxical that one
should 60 to blue room for relief from
the blues, but there il doubtless some
homeopathic pr1nciplee underlying it,
effects, and it IL undoubtedly . fact
that the treatment has been very effi-
cacious In cases Of nervous disorder.
The sunlight cure is as old as Diog-
cnes, and the blue glass remedy was
used ten, years ego, but the combina-
tion OF two kinds of light is entirely
new. 1t has been found that . ray
from old Sol cannot be taken "in bulk," !"
as it were, with such beneficial effects
as when it 10 divided up into parts and
administered in blue-coated homeo-
pathic doses.
A great many new discoveries have
been made of late, relative to the prop
critics of sunlight, of which the most
important is the existence Of the K
. ray, which caused SO much excitement
at the time of its denouement.
As is well known, q ray of light IL ex-
ceedingly complex in its makeup, being
composed of the seven color rays
violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow,
orange and red, which are visible to the
ordinary eyesight-besidesa at least two
invisible rays, namely, the K ray of DIR.
Roentgen on the violet end Of the spec
trum, and the infrared ray discovered
by Prof. Langley. Of the Smithsonian
institution. Each Of these invisible
rays has q specific chemical effect which
is chiefly manifested in the process Of
photography. It IL, therefore, reason
able to inter that each Of the different
color rays may have its own peculiar
Office, chemical or otherwise. By a
series of experiments DR.. ]. Mount
Bleyer, Of New York, who has been
working on this subject for many years,
has been able to show that certain color
rays are more efficacious in killing
germs than others.
He has found that the blue, red and
orange rays have pronounced chem
ical effect upon organic matter, and of
these the blue y the most powerful.
Now. there Is. Of course, certain pro-
portion OF blue IN ezery ray OF light,
but If the amount ecan be increased it
is natural to suppose thas FL beneficial
effects will be greater. For this rea-
son 1t was at first believed that an en-
tirely blue atmosphere speaking lit
erally-would be the best destroyer
of germs. By experiment upon the liv-
ing body, however, it was found that
the undiluted blue was too powerful.
and finally DR.. Bleyer hit upon the plan
OF alternating it with streaks of white.
This treatment was At first used upon
patients afflicted with nervous diseases.
and the effect produced was very bcne-
fetal. But owing to its known chem
ical effects upon germs DR.. Bleyer
tried it upon the various infectious
diseases, and with such good results
that he proposes, with the aid Of q
stock company, which has been formed
by several prominent physicians, to
build hospital solely for thie purpose.
-Washin0ton Star.