THE COLOR CURE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE COLOR CURE.

DOCTOR'S THEORY OF A NEW

TREATMENT.

A new and picturesque consumption 'cure is foreshadowed. It is a treatment based upon the color of the clothing worn by sufferers from phthisis.

The results arrived at by Dr. Mangat, who has studied the question of clothing to be worn by consumptives, is the subject of an article in the Practitioner, which states that light has a favorable etlect on sufferers from phthisis, probably due to the bacterial action of the rays. Dr. Mangat therefore infers that the clothing of consumptives should be of such a nature as to allow the light to reach the body with the least amount of interference. !

White materials, he has found, allow the largest number of chemical rays to pass through them, and therefore he declares that consumptives should clothe themselves in snowy garments, either of linen, velvet, cotton, or cloth, but not white silk. After white, blue ancl violet are to be recommended, but tl ese colors do not answer the purpose so well as white, as they intercept all the rays of the spectrum save those corresponding to their own tints.

Materials of black, red, yellow, 01; green are put absolutely out of court, as they prevent the passage of any bactericidal rays.