| Show RED FOR FOP SMALLPOX SMALL POX recent experiments have shown that this method of treatment prevents permanent pitting it is well known that red light 0 possesses some peculiar prop property erty which annuls t the he chemical effect produced by other hues compos composing ing the rober fober spectrum A red light 1 is used in photographic photograph c dark roonie because it its rays do not affect the sensitive pl plate ate in the process of deve developing lopin some time ago it was wah suggested that the pits which appear on the f face ace after a severe attack of smallpox small pox might be due clue to the action of the sunlight with a view to testing this theory the windows in the bloms rooms in which 1 I the patients were confined were shaded by orange colored curtains the results were not very satisfactory possibly posa ihly because the ex pediment peri ment ent was bunglingly done the idea was wag not given up however and lately so some me tests have I 1 been made with red light which ha has a greater power than orange light ill 10 exclude the suns rays the light was tried on several unvaccinated vaccina ted children suffering from I 1 small pox in it a german ho and the disease immediately took aft fayo to t alt haigh the th e apil alp W pea jea t F e d I 1 h heyd brea li 1 ind and finally disappeared leaving i the skin perfectly smooth there was no secondary fever according to dr feilberg Feil burg who conducted this test the essential point for the success of this treatment is that it should be begun during the early stag stage e of the disease shortly after the pits or vesicles have appeared if the seventh day have been reached it is hardly possible to prevent the pits from breaking and hence becoming permanent another important point is that the exclusion of the chemical rays of daylight must be complete and continue until the vesicles have quite dl ried dried up |
