The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-03

AnA1ltS lAF Oh rtdEHl4lENi ADHrEeilfn
glasses are used to protect the eyes from
the light. and the electric current is turned
on Al once "A 5000 candle power ray OF
light streams from the reflector Of the
searchilght and strikes the patients chest
Sometimes the plain. Dnmodided electric
hght is nsed more often screen Of blue
violet or some otner colored glass is iutcr-
posed between the patient and the source
~ light. The purpose OF the colore-I screen
viii be understood directly
iIfen Il happens INST patient is pre-
serted who is onlg In the FIRST stage 81 the
SGls-asr fefhsPs only one part Of Ihe
| lung is affected while the resi- is healthy.
y spch q condition Is found upon examine
ION, or u u s7ouid loo decided that ! mar
/ uoeiar pRrt Of the PATENTS iung needs
! tleAttnent more than another. IL Is posi-
I Die 50 q concentrate the light RAYS that
Ine} WI strike Just the part OF the chest
4 ~ rs otsifed 70 reach The RAYS Of the
/ seaFchilght can be directed as aceuratcly
/ as me point 81 light from 3 lens
s-, ml.n tAere IS plenty Of sun and the con
] suiilp I've patients have advanced a little
I on The road 10 health the searebIlrbt f-.u
/ pe superseded either hy plain sunlight az
/ ~ ~ ARRANGEMENT u tense, which con
| - rates the hsht Of the sun 10 a focal
| POM, TIE best method 10 be adopted de-
| FtlQs upon the condition Of the Datfen-
e sisr las professional opinion Of tie physl-
ian VINO Is treating him.
| Inc thecry Of the new searchllgAt treat
/ nsrIt OF cons npptioh IS that certain raw.
81 hsIL round W the solar speetTuul-nota-
/ plF those o. the violet ana blue shade
hte powerfully germicidal When me mi
C.voes OF even The most deadly diseases
ne exposed 70 the artificial blue or vioief
o1isprg t pGs oeea proved that they are
Lsis discovery. comes after ten years
a9ra ana careful work By DR.. j Mount
bleEfr of New York. who. in a paper res Z
( feW DAYS ago before the American ON
1 sFeSs Of tuberculosis. made uUhIic ~
H3+lhods by which he says he mas bae7
eon. - SIEs - per cent OF all cousumprycs
Curiousy enough. DR.. Bleyer's discovery
-. ~ measure. been foreshaaowe1 hy
SeEeTai previous scientists hnf Iugf ~
GaFan discovered the elecfric 'b-r.a-S
r eieLUui realizing its Importance. So Or
III y > predecessors seem 10 have ax.
III -ea5i without apprecisung the prac.
be a ~ slealcsi purposes 70 which they could
Many of the peculiar properries of lion,
So cleYerly utillzpd by Or 9;,int p - p,
naNe Oeen known ever since Sir Is99r Ns1
~ Ftsolfed the rays 81 tire sun lufg ina
c"iofS determined by Sir Isaac Se,r-o- H.
lheir solar order, We're red. orange yefiovt
Hen, blue, indigo emf violet Sir John
4ttEtHt4ei suns 9quentlY established fha fsrt
mat me chemical power Of tbe sut's rars
MAe gre2feEi IN the blue part OF tic sDpr
aal.' Rnieh was also the color giving The
IsVt, was great surprise to the scientfsts
o. that daN Tor while In gave the least
usn, % CAV the most heat q thing whieb
eonlrallcted many az the then existing
When the electric light came into zen.
80, u.s. sIeat many experiments Were
rum q the new Hight. General A !
Iie2santon OF the United States HorticnItu.
a,i mem carried out numher o.
thIeLul ana interesting experiments TO de-
I lerinlne the effect ~ the electric light upon
yegetatiou- BY the use Of tie natural
EGuuc light gS well as bY EXPERIMENT.
Win fNlNTHu glass This 0rfufrnf frra
ton established the fact that vegetation
could be forced, BY the aid o. electric Hight.
z 70 sn enormous Size. ana that the growth
was obtained IA much less time tlaR under
natural conditions
Or. Mount Bleyer SAYS OF his work: .Nfy
carry experience IN this line ~ work was
founded on patient experiments upon
young and old animals o. several kinds
For the LAST i've years J have worked
these different rays Of light in the treat
ment OF many forms Of tuberculosis and
various other germ diseases.
J huVe found that the hest results are
2 10 be obtained from the use OF the violet
RAYS, either as generated By coloret glas,
ami concentrated sunlight hv means OF
glass or coiored liquids. sunlight T. best
employed when the suns rays are strong
est In this latitude. as during May. June
July. August. September and October.
tial: Indeed. / have found II almost imma
light or sunlight ~ eourse oEe can sl de
pend upon electricity az all hours Of thl
day and az all seasons. and 50 he infe
pendent. We know positively now tha
electric light has similar chemical propeT
ties 70 sunlight. II can. for Instance. b
used 81 photography. When passed. througt
prism the electric Hight Is decomposet
and gives a spectrum differing very llttl'
from that ~ sunlight.
Light properly applied. Is a care 10
consumption OF that theFe Is no Doubt
The open air treatment o. consumption
now 50 fashionable 4 hased upon a par
tinl comprehension Of the principles Of IN
IMPORTANCE 81 light 10 the organism. tn
value Of sunlight can not be orerestimeted
COnsumptiyeS and those With n tendenc'
toward that disease should 1--we II L a