Show 1 COLORS THAT DISEASE the most Y feature ol 01 modern medical treatment Is the part played by various colors in the treatment or disease but like the arazo tor healing diseased organs by administering preparations pa rations ot healthy ones the idea Is on traceable back to the most ancient times only the other day dr finsen the great danish physician elioso appliances for treating various diseases by aro to bo found la most of abo london hospitals addressed an earnest appeal to the medical profession in england to treat smallpox by mean red light but this method though now spoken ot as a new treatment for this fell disease was knowla know lQ arabian physicians in the middle agea and actually used by john of gaddesden Gadd esden in the country somewhere about tho twelfth century truly there Is nothing new under the auti suti and least of all the treatment of disease by colored light still although familiar to medical men this great system of therapy Is not BO to the general pubic and with a view to educating tho man in the street on tha subject ifray bo interesting tu review ourS present mcann of ap plying tho doctrine ot healing by light V this gown is distinctive for its paip cut the material 15 cream white trini mcd with deep cream lace on the may aerial the curved lines abc small tucks taked in the material finished with medallions of lace the cleeves show one odthe newest designs from enrich bros which we owe to the doctors 0 araby in pure is tho greatest healer in natures pharmacopoeia no noxious microorganisms micro organisms rail long resist exposure to bright white lusht and this Is the reason why the organisms ot disease thrive and multiply in the crowded alleys of the poor walls merely struggle or existence in ahn bright well lighted of the well to do tho following table pic pared by dr manuel of paris demonstrates the difference between the number of microorganisms micro organisms to bo found lu placed exposed to bright and others in which it is comparatively excluded per yard of air high 1 microbe mid atlantic summit of tho pantheon at paris microbes mic robes hotel de aleu hospital at paris microbes mic robes it microbes mic robes were found in a cubic yard of air taken at random from ono of the fine fit hospitals on the continent it can readily be imagined that english observers have found more than halt a million in the air from dark squalid courts in the east end of london BUN BATHS AND BALDNESS but besides its great effect as the greatest of simple white light special ones in the treatment of premature sunlight Is more important than a fact which wa discovered by the americans longa before light treatment had any vogue in this country more ahn tw fl ago sun baths were regularly proscribed in the treat ment of diseases dl the skin in many parts of the states and the exposure ot the scalp to direct sunlight Is now a recognized method of promoting abo growth of tho hair 1 believe that much of the baldness now so common is due not to physical decadence as como would have us believe but to the constant wearing of stiff unyielding headgear such as the hat and bowler which fashion foolishly decrees ses to be the correct headgear of the englishman the hair always begins to go cither at th benr kit AA alil where U is compressed and destroyed by be stiff hat brim pr at the upper and back part where no rays ot sunlight can penetrate even in the bummer fashion has until recently decreed that a hat must bo worn but the Panama Is a hyglen lp improvement arid if some similar type ot headgear were adopted in lieu of the abominable silk and felt hats ot our so called civilization ate would see baad haada in the future this lg hot a mere fancy ory evolved by analogy but the ot observation au roy practice I 1 can recall one case where a lady patient came to me buttering from thinning of the hair on the temples biad been wearing an ordinary pallor hat which came well downour the temples pretty wel lall day long as she was leading an outdoor life at A sanatorium A couple of of a soft panama and a allm lotion te stored the hair to its normal condition AND again in the treatment of or bright sunlight plays an important barf the disease Is very common lir iritta Irid ta ana isan variably treated there by applying red iodide mercury ointment and making tho patient sit in the nun for an hour or two the pame method ot treatment elves the best results in england but unfortunately the difficulty ie in the winter months to find your sunlight and diffused light Is 1 the rays of a powerful arc lamp form however a moderately good tor ane absent sun sunlight has a fu r h er important use which has recently been observed an edinburgh medical student found that a case ot lupus was d fishing in the highland the improvement was apparently parent ly due to tho effects of a sunlight both direct wi d reflected from wh surface of eifle highland burns 1 arguing by analogy he tried the effect 0 concentrating the sunlight by means 0 a lens and was gratified by finding that the growth rapidly diminished and finally disappeared the treatment thus accidentally discovered is now a recognized means ot li one of tho most distressing ot tho many complaints di erectly attributable to that potent microbe the tubercle tuber clo laupua or tho wolf I 1 may mention la an affection which as a few the nose rapidly cats the organ away and produces the mask BO often acan in the streets ot london RUD licar AND inflammation nell white rays a electric lamp aro the most powerful means of exerting the full effects ot light lut a geryon knows white aught la not a simple body but a compound of various colored rays which can be split up into its component parts and those parta again compounded to produce white light the various colored lights have a might be expected different properties and these have been investigated recently in the lister institute 0 preventive medicine red lightens waa discovered empirically in arabia many centuries ago has no lr altane fuei ff ei on the skin and benco ts usefulness in the treatment ot violet has on the contrary a most pro ducong or prot toUne la all inflammatory conditions of tho badri it must be cal excluded white light contains violet rays and for this reason red light only must bo admitted to abc rooms of patients buffering from inflammatory affections ot the elten euch as smallpox eczema etc |