The Sun – The Healer
When one of my animals feels sick he sits in the sun each day for as long as is pleasant. When an Indian feels rheumatic or depressed he sits in the sun. Every wild animal and bird has a sunning place, where it seeks the great healer; yes, even when these animals are strictly night prowlers.
These are among the things I noticed long ago, and so embodied the idea in my scheme of outdoor life. In one stage my boys are sunburnt to the waist, in a later one, all over.
I had no exact knowledge of the way in which the warming ray was curative, but men of science have been following slowly the trail of the truth and now give us some interesting facts:
The Literary Digest of February 28, 1914, tells of the amazing success they have had in France, Russia, and Germany in treating many forms of tuberculosis and rheumatism with direct sunlight. Collier's for August, 1914, tells of the sun cure in use at Perrysburg, N. Y. In the New York Herald for March 7th is a long description of Dr. Joseph Schmaskin's successful treatment of skin-growing through the power of the sunray. A little boy was brought into Lebanon Hospital, Bronx, N. Y., with thirty square inches of skin burnt off his neck and chest. His parents were too poor to pay for a grafting operation, so the new (old) sun process was brought to bear, and in a remarkably short time new skin was created by the all-healer. Other cases followed, each with like results.
A still more amazing record is given in the Literary Digest ..text pokračuje
