The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-24
SOLAR SEAT AS CURATIVE AGENT.
Sun Baths Are "a Valuable Stimui as
to the Nerves.
Health Magazine.

Health Magazine.
The choice of baths submitted for public
approval seems practically limitless; there
are the Russian, the Turkish, the indicated,
the electric, the Sea-salt and sulphur varie-
ties. Then there are all the natural hot
springs that are claimed to have remedial
value for bathers, down to the unsavory
mud bath. These are supplemented by the
sand bath the air bath, and last, but by
no means least the sun bath. This latter
variety has never received the attention Its
merits deserve, from the therapeutic stand
point. 1t is astonishing how few people
there are who properly estimate the by
gienic value of the suns rays. valuable
lesson on this point may be learned by, OBJ
serving the lower animals, none of whom
ever neglect an opportunity to bask in the
sun. And the nearer man approaches to
his primitive condition the more he is in
cined to follow the example of the animals.
1t is a natural instinct, which civilization
has partially destroyed in the human race.
The effect of sunshine is not merely thermal,
its rays have chemical and electric func-
lions. 1t is more than possible that sun
shine produces vibrations and changes of
particles in the deeper tissues of the body
as effective as those of electricity. Many
know by experience that the relief 1t affords
to wearing pain, neuralgia and infamma-
tory is more effective and lasting than that
of any application whatever.
Those who have faceache should prove it
for themselves, sitting in a sunny window
where the warmth falls full the cheek,
For nervous debility and insomnia the treat
ment of all others is rest in sunshine. There
is no tonic like it, provided the good effects
are not neutralized by i'll feeding. To re-
store a withered arm a palsed or rheu-
matte limb or to bring case of nervous
prostration up speedily most efficient part
of the treatment would be to expose the
limb or the person many hours to direct
sunlight as the day would afford. With
weak lungs let the sun fall full on the chest
for hours If internal tumor or liberation
is suspected let the sun burn through the
bare skin directly on the point of the
disease for hours daily. There will be no
doubt left in the mind that there is a curea-
tive power in the chemical rays of the sun.
For the chilliness which causes blue hands
and bad color resort to the sun; let it al
most blister the skin, and the circulation
will answer the attraction. 1t is finer
stimulus than wine. electricity or massage,
and we are on the verge of great thera-
peutic discoveries concerning it.
Says DIR. Thayer, of San Francisco: Dur
ing a practice of more than a quarter of a
century 1 have found no caustic or cautery
TO compare with solar heat in it's beneficial
results Unlike other caustcs, it can be
applied with safety to the most delicate
tissues and the system receives the treat
ment kindly. The irritation and infamma-
ton following are surprisingly slight the
pain subsding Immediately on removal of
the lens. There is a curative action, yet
unexplained. in the chemical rays of the
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