The Best Antiseptic

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 263, 5 November 1937, Page 2

The Best Antiseptic

"Even before that date we had learnt that sunlight is an antiseptic—the oldest, cheapest, safest, most natural, most widely applicable in the world. The germs of tuberculosis have been experimentally found to survive after two years in the dark; pure sunlight of the ordinary intensity in this country, undimmed by coal smoke, kills those germs in from seven to ten minutes. Wherever pure sunlight falls it kills our deadliest enemies—whether upon our carpets or our pavements or sand heaps in the parks or anywhere else. There is little or no fear of contracting any infection anywhere in the open where the sun shines. Most of our infectious diseases arc diseases of indoors and shade. It has been proved by exact experiment that sunlight raises the antiseptic power of the blood by his action on the white blood cells. No chemical antiseptic, but only the celestial hets this power. The Only Skin Food “We sometimes read advertisements about skin foods. There is no sucn food but sunlight. Certain parts of the light pass through the skin and are absorbed by the blood, which is enriched accordingly. Very few city dwellers have enough iron in their blood, for they are light starved. The coal smoke which blackens us also bleaches us. When we are exposed to sunlight the amount of iron in the blood rapidly increases without any change of diet or the taking of any “chemical foods.” Doubtless sunlight which its potent chemical action may cause the colour of carpets to fade, but colour in our children’s cheeks is more beautiful and more valuable than any carpet. Besides iron, we now know that lime, phosphorus, and iodine are increased in the blood by exposure to sunlight. These elements are necessary for all of us, but preeminently for children, whose bones