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Show THE BENEFICENT LIGHT. A writer in a French magazine discusses the climate of lower Egypt. He says the air is intensely in-tensely humid, that the heat, the filth, the flies and the dust make of it one of the most unhealthy spots in the world, and that the people are saved only by "the intense light which destroys the disease-producing bacteria." Every day the evidence accumulates that light is the life of the world, and people should keep this in mind when they build houses and hospitals. Disease retires before light, even as the beast of prey seeks his lair at dawn, even as bad men, human beasts of prey, carry through their plans in darkness. No cure for tuberculosis has been found as effectual as the open air treatment, where the light is given full play upon the patient. Some of the results from the application of the X-ray are most wonderful and many eminent men believe its discovery a direct advance in the practice of physicians and surgeons. Light from the standpoint of science is the most precious gift made to man. In this view -when a wealthy man or corporation keeps the air of a city dense with smoke from the burning-of slack in furnaces and under boilers, he or it commits a crime and should be dealt with accordingly. |