Show Just a Ray o of Light B By ELLA ELL WHEELER WILCOX People who vIm remember back bace to the te seventies will win recall a blue glass a craze crae which spread all al over the countr country Ono Oo General set the tIme world agog wIth tho the Idea Ide that light falling through luo glass would cure every overy mortal morta aUment allme all ail me ment ment n t. t Vast s sanitariums were built buit composed com com- posed of or blue glass and man many fashioned rooms of or blue glass glas In their homes lomos where they they sat oat fat for hours dally daily daly Regular physicians considered th the Idea dea Idea a form of or quackery and It passed as s other fads have havo passed and blueglass blue glass gloss which had ha risen to an extravagant extravagant extravagant gant gant price fell tel below par But nut now come the tho violet rays ras which arc are only a higher vibration of or the blue and science stands In their beautiful radiance ad Ion ce and tells tho the world that these rays ays rays have havo come como to sta stay to heal and to tos s save avo vo mankind from needless suffering General on on was wa after 01 all on the tho tho right track but he lacked tho the and research and persistence which would h have he e established his theory theor as a scientific e fact tact Doing Ana Arny With Ib Surgery Tho The Firisen rays ras tho the violet Iolet rays ras ra's the tho X-ra X rays X-rays s 's aro ro arc rapidly doing awa away with the ho surgeons surgeon's knife kno It I Is that knife which will wi In time bo be called cled an Implement meat ment ment of or quackery It I Is afo safo rare to assert that In twenty twenty- 1 five Ivo years from now the painless and beautiful process of or light will wi be used In n 90 0 0 per cent of or the tho maladies where whore the he knife Is now no employed Tho The skilled specialists of tho the day who make light a. a a a lifo stud study know that Its ts use taken in early stages cures ap appendicitis appendicitis Rp- Rp cancer and and tumors the last named In advanced states state and that rheumatism and Innumerable other maladies fade fado away before tho the glor- glor hour loua ous rays rys of or God-created God light Almost everybody who reads reas or who hears reading people talk Is familiar familar with wih tho the ox expression Tho ray rays Not ot one ono person In a n score knows what the expression means other other than somo some sort of or a medical term A few fow years ears ago ao Cleveland lorett gave tho the story of or these days to the magazine world and It Is such mal a wonderful wonderful won Won- story that some BarA of ot It ought to reach the tho whole I l largo large r i army of oC people who rend read only news news- papers paper First of oC all al It ma may bo be stated that Is ia a man man man-at man man-al an Icelander Icelander and and that tho the rays ras he ne discovered ered are arc rays rus of ot light which heal heal disease of certain kinds long supposed to bo be Incurable cn ot Scars Scar In 10 Ono One Oo of or these cures Is the doing away awny utterly with scars In the tho dread m mau malady dady of or smallpox It 1 was wa discovered by Dr Finsen that placing patients patents afflicted with wih this scourge In a room where tho light filtered through red curtains brou brought ht them back to health without disfigurement Physicians who crr carry out this thi theory to tho the letter leter and who are aro able ablo to shut their patients patient behind red curtains and keep them there thoro from the lile start to tho the cure of tho the disease never fall fail fal to prove pro the tho worth of tho the Finsen en discovery That hat alone should make this Icelanders Icelander's Icelanders Icelander's Icelanders Icelander's Iceland Iceland- ers er's name namo nao immortal Way Yay back In tho the days das of or Qu Queen n EU Elizabeth mEsa Eliza nI n- I beth certain doctors declared red cover- cover lots and curtains curtins and lights good to use usein I In tho the rooms of or smallpox patients nut But tho the regular regular school howled th them thum m down downa as a charlatans and of c tivo and ad sensible minds laughed laug the thing to scorn I So S tho the world orl had to wait wat several hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred years until the tho young oung Icelander I compelled the attention of or science Soon after aUer his hits discovery discover the red 1St was wa tried in Gothenburg Sweden b br b. 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I Dr whoso whose verdict was In n grave gra c cases of oC smallpox it gave the tho most surprising resul results I can eRn say ay as the result of or my experience that suppuration la Is I usually abolished b by this treatment Scars Sar are at extremely rare and an If it they do occur they thoy are arc cant shorter The Tho duration of the the disease la Is I ered 7 y MH sa lOl Icelander And presently control tests testa were svere made mado showing that If I smallpox pa- pa p- p tent were ware exposed c to daylight after beginning the red light treatment the they Invariably suffered suppuration and ands s scarring A very vcr little daylight was wan found round sufficient to do the harm tho the skin belD being almost AS ns sensitive to the echoic actinic ray rays nn as al a photographic plate plate It I was wan therefore Judged ne necessary s- s Mr sary and Is today to k keep p every Cry o ray of or daylight out of ot a smallpox patients patient's patents patent's room and to cover every window v and opening with wih r red d curtains or red gla glass 9 with wih the name Ime care cre that a photographer exercises In guarding his hla dark 1 room In ordinary cases case Ce a a. clear r rd red d Ih light ht Is lurel sufficient nt to prevent scarring and the tho patient patent nt can cn see o to read read In v very r bad cue cases however there Is need nee of or a deep red reit rel light Mr Ir Moffett says aya Hs t It I Is la fitting that that a great geat discovery discovers touching the tho treatment treatment and ant care caro co of or certain certain cor- cor tam tain diseases by light alone should bo he given gl the world b by a man who lived In Iceland until ho he was 21 and know knew through all al his boyhood tho the depressing Influence of or too much night Ono One o or of orthe the first t things ln s said whon whoa I went ent to see him la last Mt t summer In Copenhagen Copenhagen Copen Copen- hagen was Wl this and he ho said ald It I with with touch touching In humility All l that that I have havo accomplished In my experiments with lh light and all al that I have havo learned leaned about Its Is therapeutic value has come because be- be causo cause I needed the tho light so 50 much my my- self I longed for it so The Te Law Tnt Ne T Folia Tho The story of or achievement Is another Instance of success growing out of ot apparent failure and strength out out of or weakness For after studying medicine for tor eight tho the Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen Copen Copen- hagen hagen university ho he took his hla doctors doctor's degree In 1890 at lt tho the ago of ot 30 only to find nd himself so stricken In bod body with wih heart heart liver and dl digestive organs orsan all al affected that it was out Olt o of tho the question Queston for him ever to practice his hlo hil profession So S So ho turned to the tho work ork that that of offered offered or- or and for Cor years filled fled tho the modest post post of or preceptor In anatomy at nt atthe tho the university his health continuing as bad as a possible possible Thus In 18 1893 tho the 1 FinSen Fin Fin- ln- ln Ben een whoso whose fame toda today Is celebrated through all aU tho the scientific world was wn a n poor and ob obscure curo Instructor in a little Danish ct city What an Inspiration is such a life lre to all al other aspiring and ambitious souls What hat proof lies les In that that simple ment mont of ot Finsen's that tho the light camo came because he longed so for it Everything comes to tho time soul foul capable capable cpa cpa- capa capa- ble of or this persistent and unremitting longing the longing the longing which sets the tho head neat and ant the tIme hands to work In an un unremitting unremitting un- un remitting effort eror to find that for which It It longs Such a soul needs no pull pul It needs no friends at at court It needs no Influence influence In fluence no capital All Al It Il needs is I Its is own burning Intense longing and Its It own dauntless courage Tho The light ht follows fonow The law never falls fails fals |