Rare Work on Physically Addressing Color Blindness (1946)

Newton, Philips S. Suggested Aids for Correcting Color Blindness, self-published in 1946, in Oakland, California.  10.75" x 8", 34pp, with numerous illustrations (in color!) Heavy printed wrappers, printed on glossy paper. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their surplus stamp on the rear cover and a small stamp on the front cover. VG copy.  $125

• Oddly enough, there are no copies of this work located in WorldCat/OCLC. 
• "For this condition, I will prescribe, for your information, a marvelous cure, the result of my experience in such cases. Take a precious stone we call sapphire. Powder it most thoroughly in a metal mortar and store it in a golden vase. Put a little into the patient's eye every day and he will soon be cured "-- from the Medieval medical text De Oculis, by Benevenutus Grassus, Stanford University Press, 1929, page 58. 

Admittedly I was more interested in the illustrations in this work¹ than the text, mainly (and obviously) because the images are so striking. The text is in its way a pre-scientific attempt at 'curing" color blindness, which is a genetic disorder.  The color wheels ("variable speed rotary color vision stimulator") were intended to be rotated to produce different color senses for "color vision stimulation"--it could be used to determine whether or not color vision was being "improved".

Most of the work was a sales vehicle for Dr. Newton's color blindness color regenerators, or whatever, all of which could be obtained from his office in Oakland.  I guess Dr. Newton was trying, but...

Newton, Philips S. Suggested Aids for Correcting Color Blindness, self-published in 1946, in Oakland, California.  10.75" x 8", 34pp, with numerous illustrations (in color!) Heavy printed wrappers, printed on glossy paper. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their surplus stamp on the rear cover and a small stamp on the front cover. VG copy.  $125

• Oddly enough, there are no copies of this work located in WorldCat/OCLC. 
• "For this condition, I will prescribe, for your information, a marvelous cure, the result of my experience in such cases. Take a precious stone we call sapphire. Powder it most thoroughly in a metal mortar and store it in a golden vase. Put a little into the patient's eye every day and he will soon be cured "-- from the Medieval medical text De Oculis, by Benevenutus Grassus, Stanford University Press, 1929, page 58. 

Admittedly I was more interested in the illustrations in this work¹ than the text, mainly (and obviously) because the images are so striking. The text is in its way a pre-scientific attempt at 'curing" color blindness, which is a genetic disorder.  The color wheels ("variable speed rotary color vision stimulator") were intended to be rotated to produce different color senses for "color vision stimulation"--it could be used to determine whether or not color vision was being "improved".

Most of the work was a sales vehicle for Dr. Newton's color blindness color regenerators, or whatever, all of which could be obtained from his office in Oakland.  I guess Dr. Newton was trying, but...