The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-08-11
The ''Blue Ray" Cure.

ttHs 1tiAta a. AINA1dliOns 1s - 49,
recently published a work setting forth
the wonderful effects Of blue rays Of
light, both upon the animal and vege-
table creation. The author, who is also
the discoyerer OF this wonderful RENE
dial or reyivifying process, gives the
results of a large number OF expert
ments made by him, and III conclusion
saws:
ave have, in these instances that |
have advanced, manifestations of the
remarkable variety of powers as de-
veloped in the several cases, all differ
ing from each other in their various
disorders, and all having been restored
to their normal condition of health and
vigor; and in some cases having had
that condition increased and intensi-
fled. We have had moribund flower
ing plants not only arrested in their
course of decay, but re-invigorated, and
their beautiful tints Of color greatly i'm
proved. We have had branches of a
tropical fruit tree, that we're exposed TO
the action of blue light, made highly
fruitful, while others of the same tree
not similarly exposed bore no fruit,
and were feeble and apparently un-
healthy.
ave have had an immature infant
child, defective in its development at its
birth, made perfect in all its parts, and
strengthened so as to becomes striking
instance Of infantile health, viger and
beauty. We have had in another infant
child an obstinate tumor TO be absorbed,
and a degree of bodily vigor impaired
to il that defied the attacks of all infan-
tile disorders after the tumor had dis
appeared. We have had poultry of the
same variety, Matched on the same days,
presenting such different stages of ad-
vanced development, after the lapse of
the same period of time, to those Of
poultry reared in the common way, that
Incredibly must yield to well establish
ed fact, and surprise gave way to con-
yiction. We have had the vocal pow
ers of a singing bird that had ceased to
sing again excited, and its musical tones
again poured forth with greater vigor,
richness and beauty than it had ever be-
fore displayed, to the delight of all who
heard it. The deaf has been made to
hear. A mule deaf for several years,
by exposure to blue light, has been CON-
pletely cured; and the stiffness Of its
limbs with rheumatism has given way
to the natural elasticity of a normal con-
dition of health.
Under the potent influence of the
chemical blue ray, lambs that may be
used for the food and clothing OF man
have been so greatly developed in so
short a time that we may reasonably
hope that the rearing of domestic ami
mails for food may be so largely extend
ed and improved that numbers of man.
kind who from its cost have seldom used
il, may, in the near future, no longer
be deprived of this most nourishing ar
ticle of flesh diet. But the greatest
value of this application of blue light
viii be found in its curative power in
human and animal disorders of the
body. In the cases above quoted from
examples given by the human family,
rheumatism (both acute and chronic),
neuralgia, with its accompaniment of
partial paralysis and various other COM
plications, torpor of the lower X
tremities nearly amounting to paraly-
sis, have all yielded to the application
of these vital forces of light. May we
not congratulate mankind on the bless
ings which this discovery f~oreshadows?
For cerebral diseases, from softening of
the brain to confirmed insanity, l would
respectfully suggest to the medical pro-
fession full trials of the blue and sun
light baths, TO be aiken by the patients
at least once in twenty-four hours,
on the naked spine and
back of the head. Should they
succeed in removing the disorders of
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the cost of building additional lanatic
asylums, and insanity may be classed
as "A durable disease. a distinguished
surgeon OF Philadelphia, upon being
made acquainted with the remarkable
vivifying effects of this force in several
of the cases mentioned herein, express
ed 20 the author the opinion that the
vitalizing influence of these associated
colors would probably be found To
eradicate sc~rofula, and the terrible dis
eases which have produced il, from the
human system, n result never yet at
tanned by any medical treatment now
known. Ii this opinion should prove
to be well founded, why may we not
anticipate that tubercular consumption
of the lungs may be arrested in It's pro-
gress, its assesses absorbed and dis
persed by the purified blood taking up
the purulent matter, and either decom-
posing it or eliminating il through the
various excreting channels of the body
In brief, unless the beneficial results of
this new discovery are overrated, it is
certain to accomplish much good in the
future in the way Of relieving human
suffering, not to speak of the minor ad-
vantages of revolutionizing the science
of agriculture"
SAN FRANCISCO feels less securely
guarded by the three men-of-war which
are stationed outside her harbor than she