Let There Be Light explains

the spectro-chrome ther-

apy system, which involves
exposing problem areas of
the body to different wave-
lengths of colored light. It
details the 46-year struggle
of Dinshah P. Ghadiali, S-C
N, to develop and gain ac-
ceptance for his theories.

Let There Be Light

The Healing Art of Spectro-Chrome

Steven A. Ross
http://www.wrf.org/men-women-medicine/spectrochrome-dinshah-ghadiali.php
The effects of color and light on the human system are
subjects of continuous scientific investigation. The re-
search and experiments of the late Dinshah Ghadiali
proved that the body could be tuned or adjusted from
disease to health by systematically exposing it to col-
ored light. An example of this effect is found in the
medical practice of treating premature babies with Bil-
irubin Syndrome (jaundice) by exposing them to blue
light, although the methodology is somewhat different
from Ghadiali's.

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Dinshah Ghadiali was born of Persian descent in Bombay, India, in the year
1873. At the age of eleven, he became assistant to the Professor of Mathe-
matics and Science at Wilson College in Bombay. In his early career, Dinshah
was Superintendent of Telephone and Telegraph for Dolphur State in India.
The year 1897 marked a permanent turning point in his medical career. The
niece of a friend was suffering from mucous colitis. The attending physician
was using the then accepted drugs, to no avail. Having read Edwin S. Bab-
bitt's work, The Principles of Light and Color, and Blue and Red Light, by Dr.
Seth Pancoast, Dinshah was aware of the theory of chromopathy (healing
with colored light). Dinshah treated the young woman according to Dr. Bab-
bitt's technique. The light from a kerosene lantern, filtered through an indigo
colored glass, shone on her. Milk was placed in a bottle of the same color, ex-
posed to the sunlight, and then given to her to drink. Dinshah writes, "The ur-
gent straining to evacuate, which occurred perhaps a hundred times a day,
abated to ten after one treatment; after three days she was able to get out of
bed." This case was the beginning of Dinshah's intense investigation into the
effects of colored light on the human organism.
In April of 1920, Dinshah introduced his system of healing with colored lights
to the world in New York City. (He had taken up permanent residence in the
United States in 1911.) He named his development Spectro-Chrome. In the
next four years Dinshah trained over 800 professionals and lay persons. He
also designed and sold color projectors and accessories.
The first indication of opposition to Spectro-Chrome emerged in the pages of
the January 1924 Journal of the American Medical Association. The article
ridiculed Spectro-Chrome and its originator as being preposterous, closing
with the statements, "Some physicians, after reading this article, may wonder
why we have devoted the amount of space to a subject that, on its face
seems so preposterous as to condemn itself. When it is realized that helpless
but credulous patients are being treated for such serious conditions as syphi-
litic conjunctivitis, ovaritis, diabetes mellitus, pulmonary tuberculosis and
chronic gonorrhea with colored lights, the space devoted to this latest cult
will not be deemed excessive."
An indictment in Buffalo, New York, in 1931 charged that Dinshah feloniously
defrauded a purchaser by falsely representing Spectro-Chrome as a healing
system. He defended Spectro-Chrome with the testimony of three physicians:
Dr. Kate Baldwin, Dr. Martha Peebles and Dr. Welcome Hanor.

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All three of the medical experts gave sworn testimony before the New York
Supreme Court. Dr. Kate Baldwin, M.D., F.A.C.S., was Senior Surgeon at the
Women's Hospital of Philadelphia, and had been using the Spectro-Chrome
system for ten years. When she was asked by the prosecution if Spectro-
Chrome would cure cancer, Dr. Baldwin stated that in many cases it would.
She testified that she had used it to cure gonorrhea, syphilis, breast tumors,
cataracts, gastric ulcers, and severe third-degree burns, "I may commence at
the top of the head and cover practically every part of the body: ordinary in-
flammatory conditions of the eye, cataracts, glaucoma, hemorrhage into the
retina and sclera, infection of the sinuses, bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy,
tuberculosis, heart conditions (functional and organic), acute indigestion and
ulcers of the stomach, asthma and hay fever, hiccoughs that had for ten days
resisted all classical methods, cured in less than one day, all sorts of infec-
tions (local and systemic), abscesses, jaundice, kidney conditions, appendici-
tis…"
In fact, in an article printed in the Atlantic Medical Journal of April 1927, Dr.
Baldwin stated that after thirty-seven years of active hospital and private
practice in medicine and surgery, she produced quicker and more accurate
results using Spectro-Chrome than with any other methods, and there was
less strain on the patient.
Urging the medical profession to investigate the effect of color light on burns,
she cited the following case history, "In very extensive burns in a child of
eight years of age, there was almost complete suppression of urine for more
than 48 hours, with a temperature of 105 to 106 degrees. Fluids were forced
to no effect, and a more hopeless case is seldom seen. Scarlet was applied
just over the kidneys at a distance of eighteen inches for twenty minutes, all
other areas being covered. Two hours later, the child voided eight ounces of
urine."
Dr. Martha Peebles also gave sworn testimony at the trial. Dr. Peebles was a
doctor of medicine for twenty-four years, including twenty years working for
the Department of Health for the City of New York. She was a physician for
New York Life Insurance, and was a physician to the American Expeditionary
Forces during World War I. During the war, she would attend up to 61 opera-
tions daily. She stated that she had been forced to retire due to ill health, but
using the Spectro-Chrome system had restored her health. She had used

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seventeen color machines over ten years, and had treated cancer, hyper-
trophic arthritis, poliomyelitis, mastoiditis, and many other medical condi-
tions.
Dr. Welcome Hanor, M.D., a medical doctor for over thirty years, provided
sworn testimony that he had treated cancer, diabetes, gonorrhea, syphilis,
ulcers, hemorrhage, neuritis, spinal meningitis, heart disorders, uremic poi-
soning, and other medical conditions.
The jury did not find Dinshah's healing system "preposterous." Ninety
minutes of deliberation resulted in a verdict of 'Not Guilty.'
In 1947, Dinshah was tried in court for "mislabeling." Dinshah was found
guilty and was forced to surrender all of the books, magazine articles and pa-
pers he had written on Spectro-Chrome to be burned! The estimated worth
of the material that the government destroyed was $250,000. Dinshah was
placed on five years probation, ordered to disassociate himself from Spectro-
Chrome, and to close his institute.
In 1958, the FDA obtained a permanent injunction against Dinshah's institute.
He worked under the limits of the injunction until his death in 1966.
A very interesting statement was made by Dr. A. J. Ochsner, M.D., F.A.C.S.,
who was an author on several texts on surgery during those years, "In a per-
sonal experience with septic infection, the pain was so severe that it seemed
unbearable. When the use of electric light was suggested, it seemed unlikely
that this could act differently from the other forms of therapy that had been
employed. Upon applying the light, however, the excruciating pain disap-
peared almost at once, and since this experience, we have employed the light
treatment in hundreds of cases of pain caused by septic infection, and quite
regularly with results that were eminently satisfactory, not only in relief of
pain, but also because the remedy assists materially in reducing the infec-
tion."
Dinshah's son, Darius, is alive and well, living in New Jersey. He has produced
two books dealing with his father's work. Both of these books, Let There Be
Light, which was written by Darius, and a reprint of his father's 1935 work,
the Spectro-Chrome Metry Encyclopedia, are available from the World Re-
search Foundation.
I have had personal experience with the Spectro-Chrome system over the last
twenty years. My father, Stan, was told by physicians that he would not

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regain the use of his legs due to a spinal infection. Through the use of the
Spectro-Chrome, my father did regain the full and complete use of his legs. I
have personally been involved with, and witnessed results in, the application
of Spectro-Chrome in over one hundred severe medical conditions. In the
majority of these cases, the medical profession had nothing to offer those
who chose to utilize this therapy.
There are several hundred articles published in reputable scientific and medi-
cal journals relating to the effects of light on biological functions, such as Vol-
ume 453 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, "The Medical
and Biological Effects of Light." Here is an entire conference dedicated to the
biological effects from the use of light and color.
I believe that color therapy is one of the most successful, yet non-invasive
therapies in the world! It is also one of the easiest to use; it can be done by
laypersons.
The medical profession has utilized color therapy for many years, such as in
the example given in the beginning of this article. They may not want to call it
as such, but it is.
A couple of years ago, I was asked by my brother if WRF had information con-
cerning a therapy for his injured dog. The young dog had broken out of the
yard, and been hit by and dragged under a car for approximately 90 feet. The
dog was being brought to a veterinarian daily for fresh bandages. After our
recommendation of color therapy, my brother began color tonations about
one week after the accident. After four days of color tonations, the veterinar-
ian remarked that he had not witnessed an animal healing so quickly from
that type of injury. When my sister-in-law began to explain what they had
been doing, the veterinarian said that he did not want to know. His next
statement was, "Keep doing it, whatever it is."

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The Color of Truth - Kate Baldwin, M.D.

http://www.wrf.org/men-women-medicine/kate-baldwin-md.php

Dinshah Ghadiali, was one of the greatest researchers and practitioners of

color therapy in history. He developed the Spectro-Chrome system of color
therapy which was used in the early part of the 20th century. In the 1920s
and 1930s he had students learning his system who were physicians, sur-
geons, dentists and others allied in the health field. Two of his more notable
graduates were Dr. Kate W. Baldwin in 1921, and her brother in 1922, Dr. L.
Grant Baldwin, an eminent surgical/gynecological authority and a charter
member of the American College of Surgeons - Mayo Clinics. Grant Baldwin
placed a number of Spectro-Chrome devices in service in his Brooklyn, New
York clinic. Kate spent 23 years as the senior surgeon at Philadelphia Wom-
an's Hospital, and introduced Spectro-Chrome in that institution.
In 1931, Dinshah was put on trial in Buffalo, New York, for falsely represent-
ing Spectro-Chrome as a healing system. Dr. Kate Baldwin was called as his
second witness. The following excerpts are the answers that Kate Baldwin
gave under oath to the defense and prosecution questions. Through these
you will see the use and benefits of Spectro-Chrome and the strength of con-
viction of this wonderful doctor.
"I live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from Medical College in
1890. I have been an active physician for over 40 years and am rated by the
American College of Surgeons as a surgeon and by the American Academy of
Ophthalmology and otolaryngology but I have never confined myself, only to
surgery. I belong to the County and State Medical Societies of Pennsylvania
and I am registered in New York and Rhode Island to practice medicine and
surgery. I have been the Senior Surgeon at the Woman's Hospital of Philadel-
phia for 23 years and had a clinic for over 30 years."

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"Philadelphia Women's Hospital is the oldest women's hospital in the coun-
try. During this time I have performed major surgery on pretty nearly every-
thing from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet."
"I have run eleven devices every day in the hospital and have several others
in people's homes, when people cannot come to me."
"One of my most famous cases was a little girl named Grace Shirlow. About
four-fifths of her torso was burnt. She was burned beyond the middle of the
body; it went up to the clavicle and under the arm. Burns went from the el-
bow up clear into the axillary, down to the groin, about four inches on the
left leg; back up onto the back and around onto the side. It was not only the
skin that was destroyed, but the fascia of the muscle. The fascia is the cover-
ing of the muscle."
"From my surgical and medical experience, with that much of the body
burned and to that severity, it would be an absolutely hopeless and fatal
case. I was brought in about 24 hours after the burn and the surgeon and the
doctor said, 'there is no use in trying to do anything with this!' Dressing had
been placed so tightly that it was two weeks before I succeeded in getting it
all off, as I would not force it off. I told myself that there was nothing in regu-
lar medicine or surgery, that can make that child live. I told my assistant that
we might as well see what the Spectro-Chrome will do."
"The child had absolutely nothing but color and diet. I used no surgery at all. I
used paper dressing soaked with nut oil and color rays. We used turquoise
principally to build the skin. We used other colors to help stimulate the sepa-
ration of the sloughs off the body. New epithelium, new skin, will not cover
over dead tissue and we had to stimulate the separation using stimulating
colors."
"A good many surgeons saw this girl and one surgeon, who had been in the
war said, 'well, we don't try to treat one of those; we give them just a big
dose of morphine and push them off to one side.' Now, I was criticized for
not skin grafting, but where could I get skin to graft? There was no place on
the body to skin graft. Today, the little girl has perfectly moveable skin. This is
not scar tissue, but skin!"
"Additionally, there was a case of diphtheria in the ward and the staff gave
Grace a dose of antitoxin. She ran up a temperature between 105 and 106.

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Using turquoise, blue, indigo and violet I brought her temperature down to
normal."
"I have cured cases of cancer as well as gonorrhea, syphilis, breast tumors,
cataracts, gastric ulcers and glaucoma. I may commence at the top of the
head and cover practically every part of the body: ordinary inflammatory
conditions of the eye, hemorrhage into the retina and sclera, infection of the
sinuses, bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, tuberculosis, heart conditions (func-
tional and organic), acute indigestion, asthma, hay-fever, hiccoughs that had
for ten days resisted all classical methods (cured in one day), all sorts of in-
fections (local and systemic) abscesses, jaundice and kidney conditions. I
have treated tuberculosis, mastoid troubles, pleurisy, hemorrhoids, rheuma-
tism and lumbago. In many cases of cancer Spectro-Chrome will help if there
is not to much destruction from surgery."
"We had an eight year old girl with gonorrhea that we treated with Spectro-
Chrome."
"The system will make people more comfortable so that they can enjoy the
rest of their life to a certain extent, without doping them with opiates."
"We will always need the undertaker. We do not claim that we will not. But
anything that is in human possibility to be put in a normal shape, it can be
done with Spectro-Chrome. I have been asked if I have abandoned the prac-
tice of medicine. No, I have not abandoned it. I use it if I have to, but I shall
not use it as long as I can get Spectro-Chrome. Spectro-Chrome will cure
many things that drugs and general surgery will not and surgical work will do
better if you use Spectro-Chrome in connection with it."
"After 41 years of general practice and surgery in hospitals I can obtain nearly
the same results with the Spectro-Chrome as with my medical knowledge. I
will use surgery when needed. A foot that is reduced to pulp by a truck run-
ning over it is going to need a surgical operation. But the Spectro-Chrome can
help the anesthetic be taken even better before you send the patient to the
operating table. The patients recover with much less unpleasantness. It is a
gentle form of therapy where you cannot do harm. I have had six severe eye
cases using the color directly into the eye with no harm being done."
Dr. Kate W. Baldwin was under tremendous pressure because of her use of
Spectro-Chrome. Other doctors who were envious of her results asked for
her removal from the surgical staff of the hospital. In an article printed in the

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Atlantic Medical Journal of April 1927, discussing the Grace Shirlow case, Dr.
Baldwin stated that after thirty-seven years of active hospital and private
practice in medicine and surgery, she produced quicker and more accurate
results using Spectro-Chrome than with any other methods, and there was
less strain on the patient. 'In very extensive burns in a child of eight years of
age, there was almost complete suppression of urine for more than 48 hours,
with a temperature of 105 to 106 degrees. Fluids were forced to no effect,
and a more hopeless case is seldom seen. Scarlet was applied just over the
kidneys at a distance of eighteen inches for twenty minutes, all other areas
being covered. Two hours later, the child voided eight ounces of urine.'
Dr Baldwin once remarked that she would give up the practice of medicine
tomorrow rather than give up the use of Spectro-Chrome.
The third witness for Dinshah was Dr. Martha Peebles. Dr. Peebles gave simi-
lar testimony to Dr. Baldwin. She was a medical inspector for the Brooklyn,
New York Department of Health, and was a front line army company sur-
geon. She had become an invalid from arthritis and neuritis before she met
Dr. Baldwin. She cured herself after one month of Spectro-Chrome and re-
sumed her private practice.
Dinshah won his case!