Show IAn I TRUE CAUSE OF SUNBURN An English Scientist Ha Wade n Curious Discovery That Destroys Several Theories Sunburn is not caused by the heat of the sun as almost everybody thinks This is what Dr Bowles an English I scientist who has devoted fifteen years to the study of this particular subject says It is due to the violet or ultraviolet ultra-violet rays which form part of the suns gift to the earth which much resemble the X rays in their power of penetrating human tissues Dr Bowles gives it as his opinion that sunburn snowtmrn snow blindness I blind-ness sunstroke and sunfever may I all be associated with penetrating light rays rather than the action of heat Very serious inflammatory changes are often the result of sun burn and many socalled summer eruptions are due to the penetration I of reflected luminous or photochemical rays to the deeper tissues beneath the skin In one bad case which Dr Bowles examined he noticed that the victims face was not only swollen and red but deeply pitted as well and On examining these pits beneath a magnifying magni-fying glass he found at the bottom of each a freckle It was clear that in each case the frecklehad stopped the action of the rays which Sid the mischief mis-chief to the tissues lying beneath i This observation led the way to the prevention of the sunburn by the use I of colored screens Some of the doctors doc-tors friends in India reported to him that they had stopped all risk from I sunstroke by lining their hats and clothes with an orrngecolored fabric i I Dr Bowle states in this connection f that he knew of a case in which a i lady who wore a blouse with red and n white stripes had red I stripes printed on her shoulders beneath the white while the skin beneath the red stripes was perfectly protected The most interesting part of Dr Bbwles report as Jar as the general public is concerned is that which relates re-lates to the prevention of sunburn Hesays he found when climbing in Switzerland that sunburn often assumed as-sumed a very painful form and though all kinds of remedies were adopted none was satisfactory but the use of pigment He first tried the experiment upon himself and incurred no end of ridicule by courageously appearing in public with his face and hands coated with brown umber giving him the appearance I ap-pearance of a North American Indian I But when the visitors at the hotel saw that he suffered not at all from the sunburn they came to him in increasing increas-ing numbers to be painted likewise until un-til those whose faces were not the I color of copper during the daytime were the exception l Dr Bowjes tried many sorts of pigments pig-ments both on himself and volunteers I i and found that the best and most effectual i ef-fectual tint was something a little deeper than flesh color It Is said that I a German = doctor is now trying the effect of painting the skin in various t diseases and that so far his experiments experi-ments have pointed toward success I |