MUSIC AND COLOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 173, 24 July 1928, Page 10

MUSIC AND COLOUR.

THEIR CURATIVE EFFECTS. ADDRESS BY D£. FENNELLY. '"Colour is being used to practical purpose to-day and all the world speaks to us in music and in colour." Thus said Dr. P. Fennelly, a former president of the British Association of Practical Psychology, in addressing members of the Psychology Club last evening on the subject of the curative qualities of colours. Red, he said, was a stimulant, and between 5000 and 10,000 psychologists in England to-day wore red flannel, because it had been established that the colour had a definite curative effect in the case of such ailments as sciatica, rheumatism and neuralgia. But the red flannel should not be worn next to the skin, washed or worn at night. Orange and vellow were mental stimulants, green soothed the nerves and reduced blood pressure, while blue reduced inflammation. Little had been done with indigo, but violet would reduce headaches and would calm mentally-troubled people in their periods of depression. Dr. Fennelly thought much use eould be made of colour in New Zealand, where there was such abundant sunshine. What was true of colour was also true of music. It had a marvellous synthesising and unifying effect upon the bod\\