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Blessings Of Sunshine

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
March
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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Humboldt, in the narrativo oí' bis voyago tu the injuiuoutiiil regione snys that both men and woinea of the Gnayiaas, whose bodrea ara oonatantly inured to the cü'.ct, ot' ligbt, ure very museulari possessing physical developmeat r#m.irk,.bly perfoot, and tlmtln an obscivi.tiüii of iive years (Hiiong niaiiy thousinds ot' Caribs, Muysias, Mexioau, and Peruvian IndiftDB, bedidnot liad a singlo ca.o oí' natural deformiiy Bir Jarnos Wylie, in a report to the Ruasian Government, sbitud that in ono of the ba.rra.cka ut tít. Petersburg, three :asis ocourred on the dark or shadud side of the bu'lding lor one en the other, thongh the ipattmcnts un both ooiumuniciited freely witli each other, umi the disoipline, ditt and troatiaent were in eveiy respect the sume. jiany cases aro 011 record v.'here putients have in vuin beca treated tor dis casus bafSing medical skill, uutll they have bet'ii removed trom upartijpents into which thd diroct 8üuligbt tiever catne tu those where the ptiuon could be exjjused as mueh as posaible to the t'ull lght of the sun. And the resulta following sueh instiuices - sume ot which have fallón under our own obstirvalion, vnd man}' of which enter into the experknce ot every physioian - are so marked as to be ..must mu irulous. Dr. Hammond, in bis tro itiso on llygiciic, stiys : '■ The delirium and weakness which are by no nieans seldom met uith in convalescenta kept in darkness, disappcar like magic when the raya oi the gun areallowed toenterthe cbamber." Dr. Forbes Winglow, in writing oí tho sauitary and physiologioal influence of light, suys : " It is a well as-eertained faut that uiany maladies uro moro susoeptible of amehoration, if not of cure, provided the light of the sun is froely admittcd into the rooms or warda wlu ra invalii'.s are domiciled " Here is an iustance within our own knowledge. We Were visiling not long ago in a ufiifíliuoriiig citj", a fiiimly wlio live in the north teuemeut of a doul!u hüUKc, into which during the loiigesl daysofearly summer the dircot raya ot the sun come tor half an hour in the uiorniag andfor the samelength of time near sunset. This is tha ouly direct sunlight that enters the house. Is it a wonder that in this home the niother has boen an invalid for years in succession, some of the youwg children havo died, and others jet live, pale and

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Old News
Michigan Argus