JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Part of the Outsider Logic series
Aha. Here we have a curious piece of multiple fakery of color combinations presented in blue-and-white. It was written by Col. Dinshah P. Ghadiali in 1930 in support of his system of projecting color on people to cure them of an encyclopedia of ills which all happen to be color-induced from color “disturbances”. In short, Ghadiali (who claimed to be “M.D, M.E., D.C., Ph.D., LL.D, &c.”) insisted that, for example, the body consisted of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon, which were “colored” blue. Red, green, and yellow, somehow. Sicknesses were imbalances of the color of the components of the body, and the “spectro-chrome” system would project the deficient light and who-knows-what-else to do impossibly mysterious nothing and everything to everything and nothing. The one thing Dinshah was successful at was selling his very expensive projector (for $90 to $650 dollars)–diligent enough in his promotion and his key to cancer and scrofula that he sold a million dollars worth of his worthless trickery.
Maybe he believed in this tripe, and maybe not. I include a couple of examples of the artwork of the author to include in my series on Outsider Logic:
