Show A Distinguished English l I clan cian Explains ns How the r Tonic onic Effects of the Suns Sun's Rays and andi anda i c a Low Temperature Cure k and Prevent Dis Dish's i j ease and Make s People More 4 J Vigorous and A 7 r c A Ar Longer Lived Zt d l- l lr r JY J Y r Wr T f ft I 1 Q h e It I 1 f r I- I t ti i i t 0 f i n 1 I t I I kwi l v f e i Lt J I t W l lr 1 M I t tM tf f r 1 l f i i 0 r- r rt t f fL I y j it I fJ f 4 n f 4 f I t t r J ft Ji Jt t 1 I o Pf IFA t t I G t f 1 It f t 4 1 1 r t t il J 11 1 1 J I ct if ii iiI I Jl V 1 r The scanty clothing worn by tuber k r I 1 children t at a Connecticut sani j hI t ti tita ta in order to keep as much h hof of their I l j l t tto 1 1 La In L J J LENTY of or sunshine anda and a cool e PLENTY bracing these temperature temperature these e are ure the remedies which Dr C W the distinguished English physician phy phy- physician physician and author thinks better than ony medIcines for keeping us ns healthy and makIng us long lived Ined 4 He believes they havo have the power not only to cure core cure tuberculosis rickets and other diseases but to prevent them He declares the Canadians probably are tho healthiest people in i the tho world and he thinks they owe their theU gor vigor to the tho fact that the climate of Canada is lS not too warm and that that owing to the absence ence of fogs and smoke its inhabitants get tet an abundance of sunshine For many years Dr has been devoting de himself to the study of the ef- ef effect ef effect of sunlight on the human boman tissues and the more he has studied the more enthusiastic and positive bo ho has become over what it can accomplish It is not yet et certain whether sunlIght actually has bas the power to kill the germs of disease but bat he has no doubt about its t tonic nic effect on the human body After treatment with sun baths he says a pa- pa patient's patient's pa patient's tient's condition resembles that of a trained athlete the muscles being firm firmand firmand firmand and well developed and the skin supple But the good effects of tho the suns sun's rays are arc not as was formerly supposed due to their warmth On the co contrary they produce their best results only when the temperature is low The ideal hygienic combination in Dr opinion sa 18 sunlight and cold In a book entitled Sunlight and andL Health which he be has haa recently written L he urges many things which ought to be bedone bedone bedone done to insure everybody's getting the fullest benefit benent o of this wonderful health health- health giving giving combination First rust of all we should do away for for- forever for forever ever with the palls of smoke which hang hanl over so many of our cities and which bleh by shutting 0 off sucha such a n large part of the suns sun's precious light encourage the spread of disease and make recovery from it difficult or impossible Dr would go so far as to abolIsh coal fires in countries like hike Lag Eng England Lg land where smoke and the prevalent fogs make such a dangerous combInatIon combination tion If coal is 15 burned he thinks It should be only in distilled form Corm which would produce little or no smoke The houses m in which we live and the stores factories and offices where we wedo wedo wedo do our work should be remodeled so eo as asto asto asto to give the suns sun's light freer access to every part of o them Curtains blinds and even WIndow glass should be largely discarded Our heating systems should be changed also to prevent the tem tern temperature being raised to an high degree as is now often the case casa To obtain for our bodies the greatest A poss possible ble benefit from the Iho suns sun's rays we weI should wear just as little clothing as comfort and decency will permit penult And I wha what t clothing we do wear should be I J tr r T ib a aBelow r 1 Below the limited d Y clothing worn even evenin in the c o l d de e s t weather by patients 1 fr t 31 at one of the fa- fa faa r v vat Switzerland N a y is isa istl y w w a tl we e Mn e krA a af ff y tk 4 f t J e 1 c tt G 5 JJ tr ar ti tiR 9 rte b rl a ri l is ar f fy y R 4 i ir r No clothes clothe at all is is the rule at the German Gennan sanitarium where these children are be being given the sun aim un cure for tuberculosis and rickets made of materials which allow the freest passage of the sunlight Recent scientific experiments show that there is a great in fabrics in this respect For example the rays of short wave wale length which are belIeved to be the ones most valuable to us will easily pass through a certain inexpensive sive grade of mercerized cotton when It Itis itis itis is bleached v white hIte The same grade of cotton when dyed black prevents most of the health-giving health rays from reaching the flesh that is covered with w ith this cloth The dense clouds of soft coal smoke which hang over London and many of our American cities act in much the same way that the black cloth does When the sun shines through them the rays that dimly reach us are the least valuable of all Tho The others rich in health giving properties are filtered out by the smoke screen and prevented from the unfortunates who are doomed to live beneath that disease disease- disease spreading pall Dr believes that rickets the tho dISease which claims so many chIldren is due to a deficiency of sunlight moro more than any deficiency of diet It can he be wiped out of existence he believes when we make maLe our cities smokeless discard the curtains and blinds that now bar barso barso barso so much of the precious sunlight from our homes and provide an on abundance of parks parka beaches and other open places where boys and girls can give ve their growing tissues the fun full 1 Ii benefit of tho suns sun's ray rays w Never again should a case of rickets occur any any- anywhere when any where when asya Dr l It is time to make an end of this disease which can ts s certainly f t I t certainly be prevented and aad cured without money end and wIthout puce price by means of v 1 something which is everywhere every- every everywhere where available which lS is nobody's monopoly which no doctor is to t prescribe no nor druggist to dis- dis dispense dis dispense pense nor parent nor taxpayer nor cheerful giver to pay for lor affections Tuberculosis various bronchial and the anaemia an mla which is so fre- fre frequent frequent fre frequent quent in crowded sections of our largo large cities are other diseases which should become pr practically unknown Dr thinks as soon as the tho world makes tho use it should of sunlight and cold is the tho scientific term for lor forthe the treatment of disease by sunlight baths It has lias been used with great suc- suc success success suc success cess for many years in various fush- fush institutions in Switzerland andis and IS 13 fast beIng adopted in la other parts parta of the world Incomparably the best way to treat a patient suffering from rickets tuber tuber- tuberculosis tuberculosis or any of the tho other diseases of darkness says saya Dr is by helio therapy The ill III person blanc blanched bed and devitalized by starvation light and the sJ specific disease which has now fI it IS 13 gradually slowly cautiously restored to the light for lack lac of which he is dying His unaccustomed skin sian must be ex- ex exposed exposed ex exposed posed during the first day for lor three five five- five minute intervals to direct sunlight This Thu exposure should be for the feet alone Even so 80 much will mil very likely cause tenderness and swelling signs of rear reactIon reaction tion in a group of glands m inthe the neck far away from tho the exposed feet On the second day the feet may be uncovered for ten minutes three times and aud so by slow degrees the skin akin may be accustomed to the light until after a fortnight the patient may be completely exposed from the beginning ind tad remaIn so for perhaps three o or four tour hours The skin skim will become gradually pig pig pig- pigmented pig and and with the pigmentation wm will come an improvement in tho the patients patient's condition the two being closely but ob- ob obscurely ob obscurely correlated L I t- t Ida the round roond athlete athlete dressed to give her muscular limbs limb the full benefit of the sunlight and cold air as she skates kates But Dr warns that the sun sunlight light treatment should never be bo taken talen except under the direction of some one thoroughly experienced in giving It it The Tho amount of sunlight a given patient can tolerate with safety at the tart start tart and the rapidity with which the amount can be increased are matters that have to be bevery bevery bevery very carefully determined Otherwise the most serious harm hum is likely to result The truth is says Dr that the sun cure is not a simple ObVIOUS easy method which anyone any one can ap- ap apply apply ap apply ply to anybody as aa too many people suppose In the institutions in Switzerland and other places where the sun cure care is given the patients romp about in la the snow when the temperature is many degrees below freezing wearing only a loin cloth The greater part of the body is left ex ex- ex exposed ex posed to the free play of the light all the time The Tho idea that a nude node person with mth pigmented and properly functioning skin is not clothed soon leaves one at these sun cures cores curcI says Dr Also con con- conventional con conventional ideas of ot modesty receive their death blow The Too notions of decency both in the United States and Canada which that a girl when bathing shall wear t stockings clangs of full length lest her knees be visible are a stupid and aad dangerous in- in insult in insult sult to the tho light of day and to t the human body Every smoke belching chimney is a barbaric dirty and disease disease producing waste ofa of a country's natural resources The next great task of public health Is the resto restoration rest o ration of sunlight to millions of city dwellers who are now robbed of its health giving benefits by bya a dense clouds of 01 poisonous smoke t Dr Dr C C W Many different theories are offered to explain the way sunlight produces ItS curative effects Acc to one as the tho sunlight strikes the skin akin its ultra violet ultra II olet rays are arc transformed by the pig ment into red rays which are of greater penetration and strongly antiseptic But Dr thinks that neither this nor any of the other attempts at explanation gets at the real truth of the matter Processes vastly more subtle than the killing of bacilli by radiations arc are at work he ha says The skin or rather the blood abundantly moving through the tho superficial capillaries absorbs much of the tho light and retains It it The physics and physiology of the matter are still but the eVidence we possess is to the effect that the ra radiant diant energy must count as part of the energy of the bod body There is so much less need to t burn up fats and in order to t keep the blood warm If heat is passing directly into it by the skin Thus the light Is a akin skin food in one sense of the term and saves save sa ve the diges diges- digestive digestive tive tivo mechanism It has been noticed at some of the sun cures in Switzerland that tubercular pa- pa patients patients pa patients do well on a very moderate amount of food Dr thinks perhaps this may be ba evidence that they are living to toa toa a considerable degree directly upon light t lust Just as green plants do and therefore are not so much in need of fe feeding upon ordinary foods There is lS pretty general agreement that rickets is a II disease of darkness The i most cases develop in the months when Z the sun shines least and the disease IS always more prevalent in cities where the nuisance exists p and in unhygienic unhygienic tenement houses where the sun sun- sunlight sunlight light gets little or no chanco chance to pene peno- penetrate q If It tuberculosis is not actually cawed by lack of a proper amount of sunlIght Its development de IS la certainly encouraged and aad the progress of the disease hastened IN II by this lack Science is discovering discoloring that cows which have an abundance of ot sun sun- sunlight sun sunlight light are arc less loss likely to he be tubercular and also the milk they give is fa far r richer in vitamins and other health giving prop prop- properties properties j 1 |