Iowa County Democrat

Blue-Glass.

The latest Boston medical idea is an elaboration of the blue-glass theory. Sunlight is thrown into water through colored lenses, and, thus curative qualities are imparted to the water. The inventor says so, at least. "The sun's rays," he explains, "are composed of actual substances, with their exquisite and wonderful chemical powers, and, aided by spectrum analysis, I have been able to give the leading elements that compose each color. Each color has its own distinct power to heal." Red, orange, and yellow are warm colors, and directly exciting in their nature, while blue and violet are soothing. His manner of applying these remedies is as follows: "Health comes from the equilibrium of colors in the human system, and whenever any one color is so much in excess as to produce disease, harmony must be brought about by finding the color which is its chemical affinity. Thus if a person abounds in redness, as is in red hair and flushed skin, he needs blue light. Whenever the blue prevails too much, so as to give blue veins, blue finger nails, and a pale, cold condition, the warm red and orange light is needed. When a person has too great a nervous activity, the yellow, together with some red elements of his system, are too active, and he needs the violet and blue elements of sunlight to harmonize his forces and act as delightful nervines."

Converts to this new school of medicine suspend colored lenses over bowls of water and drink the warmed fluid.