EFFECTS OF COLOUR ON HEALTH.
Important as is the effect of colour on materials, it exercises a much greater influence on. the human system.
From actual experiment, it is found that red associations encourage growth and vitality, and are healing opposed to the spread of disease, and limit its power, for which, and for other reasons, sick persons are sometimes kept in red rooms in certain illnesses ; the efficacy of red flannel also for sore throat is acknowledged to be scientific fact.
This red-treatment of the sick, however, is but a modern application of similar practices in the dark ageF t ; still, beneficial results seem to follow the treatment, and theoretically this should be so, from the very nature of the rays.
Rising in the colour scale, we find yellow aids all intellectual pursuits, and gives tone to the brain,, especially so i'f the yellow is of a golden hue.
Of the tertiary colours, brown produces a similar effect, being conductive to study and thought ; it would therefore, appear that this colour should be the predominating tone oi a room in which plans, -designs, and estimates are worked out. The green of nature gives an entirely opposite «fiect. —"Magazine of Commerce."-
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 488, 3 August 1912, Page 3
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201EFFECTS OF COLOUR ON HEALTH. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 488, 3 August 1912, Page 3
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