The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-27
Light and tuberculosis.
THE HOPE MODERN RESEARCH FINDS IN THE
CURATIVE POWER OF THE SUN BEAM FOR
THAT TERRIBLE AFFLICTION, CONSUMPTION
SOME RECENT RESULTS OF EXPERIMENT.

We feel that light the great remedial agent for dis
cases OF the human organism This efficacy OF light attrbu
able to the fact that it essentially natures remedy and there
fore peculiarly adapted to assist nature bansng disease and
restoring health.
Light heat and chemical power associated the
sunbeam No of the phenomena produced by these agencies
alike Here concerned with the action of the chemical
which called the Actinc rays. by these
that photographs made and they have most to do with the
growth of plants and animals The popular belief that the
heat of the which the principal OF growth contra
dcted by scientific investigation which finds the real in the
action OF the chemical rays light After long experiment it has
been proved that the violet tine the chief chemical
the most important for vegetable and animal economy but
the heat rays also of no little value
Color exerts powerful influence in the conducton and
radiation OF heat After experiments from scientific and
therapeutic point of view found that consumptve patients de-
rive the best results under light treatment they white gar
ments the entire body or better still clothes at all
Seeds do terminate if deprived of the action of the chem
iCal although they subjected heat and human
cells are governed by the same termination growth
Light distinguished from heat the principle which the
secretion of carbon ard the evolution of oxygen by plants de-
pends plant be successfully grown the dark
though chemically nourshed This positive evidence chem
cal change in under the influence the suns and
follows that the electric arcgh rays, which of similar
ture continually act upon matter We have distinct evidence
that sunbeam the electric arcight beam fall upon
any solid body without leaving of its action
the remarkable functions OF the
of light its alteration of chemical substances One of these
physical marve the power which light upon the salts Of
IRON without within the human body and in plants.
My experiments shown that the action of the
rays act changes salts of iron that they read
lily absorbed by the blood.
In over one hundred tuberculosis patients different salts
patients placed daily the of the suns and electric
light rays. found that the iron salts taken up rapid
y, showing marvellous constitutional effects After the first week
proved richness
amount The haemogobin increase was very marked.
White light coored clothes transmit light the body
than those other color while black dark cooed clothes
absorb the light and degrade into the principle of
binary heat The white reflects large amount OF all the
but all those which penetrate the ntersce OF white gar
sufficiently pass white and the body
hand black clothes absorb all the light rays
For these all clothing for general OF ubercuous
patients should be made from the ghes coored materials
PeeraDy all white garments down to the undecIotnmg) Inns
is highly cOmmendabe To expose the entire chest down to h
waist daily for several hours is OF still better have
most wonderful results from the of the entire body in
nude in soara which built for several
patients and which had all the appointments suitable for
the different seasons Of the year.
We read in the history Of ancient Greece how inhabitants
had small in the form OF soaa built the tops their
houses and in which they took daily sunbaS There nothing
prevent the of general dwellings, from providing for
their tenants oarium built the roof 1t should be furnished
with modern appointments making useful winter
If wishes make provision for days when the
suns rays accessible the acg may be reorted In
this way continuous use of light RAYS NAV be enoved at all
times. This method should be employed every hospital
processes the consumpve according modern methods
Children who weakngs and those who disposed
tuberculosis should be kept oara for several hours daily The
sorum should be constructed that may be Independent OF
climatic conditions from every point of view Gymnastics should
also be pracced the nude and hydroherapeuc added
the general The magnetceectrc powers Of the
suns rays reside the violet rays which compound OF the
red and blue rays These what called the chmca
powers OF the sunlight That they the most mpor rant powers
OF nature there be doubt without them ednno exist
on his planet.
Light stimulus animal and plant proropasm 1t in
duCe characteristic changes OF form in individual cells and
in fixed directions in ree-vng uncclular organ
iSmS.
have also discovered by experiment and practice the efficacy
OF the combination of the heat of the and the electric
acgh in stimulating the glands and cells of the body the
generally and the seCreve organs of and ami
mails This combination becomes most important adJuVant ee
in the OF and chronic diseases especially
such result from arrangement of secretve respiratory
glanduar functions vaze and gives renewed activity and
force the vital currents that keep the health unmpared
them when dsordered or deranged
My specially constructed electric arcamps for generating
let light have been developed greatly since first expert
These concentrated rays produced by the high-power
lamp pass through the solid tissues well through bone 1t
both tonic destroyer of bacteria OF sixty typical cases
treated in this way report forty cured and in the other
twenty the ravages of the disease arrested.
Long exposure of the prime rules. Nothing less than