The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-07
BLUE GLASS REVIVAL
his Of the Flesh Again Being
Treated by Color Rays.
Nervous Disorders Said to Have Been
Eenedied by the Light Ad-
mittcd Through Col
cred Glasses.

The newest panacea for ills, imag'
mary and otherwise, is 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
CT all sorts of ailments, from head
ache to a case of typhoid fever.
It is somewhat paradoxical that one
should go to blue room for relief from
the blues, but there is doubtless some
homeopathic principle underlying Its
effects, and it is undoubtedly a fec!
that the treatment has been very etii-
cacious in cases of nervous disorder.
The sunlight cure is as old as Diog.
enes, and the blue glass remedy was
used ten years ago, but the combiaa.
ton of two kinds of light is entirely
new. It has been found that a ray
from old Sol cannot be taken "in bulk, "
as it were, with such beneficial ELECTS
es when it is 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.
Az is well known. q ray of light is ex-
ceedipgly 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 cyesight-besides at least two
Invisible rays. namely, the x ray of DR..
Roentgen on the violet end of the spec
trum. and the infrared ray discovered
by PI0f. Langley, of the Smithsonian
institution. Each Of these invisible
rays has specific chemical effect which
is chiefly manifested in the process Of
photography. It is. therefore, reason
able to infer 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 eficacious in killing
germs than others.
He has found that the blue, red and
orange rays have a pronounced chem
ical effect upon organic matter, and of
these the blue is the most powerful.
Now, there is, Of course, certain pro-
portion of blue in every ray Of light,
but if the amount can be increased ii
Is natural TO suppose that its beneficial
effects will be greater. For this rea.
son it was at first believed that an en-
tirely blue atmosphcre-speal1ing 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 wes at first used upon
patients afflicted with nervous diseases,
md the effect produced was very bcne-
fetal. But owing to its known chem
zeal effects upon germs DR.. Bleyer
tried it upon the various infectious
diseases, and with such good results
that he proposes, with the aid Of
stock company, which Us been formed
by several prominent physicians, to
build a hospital solely for this purposes
Washington Star.