Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-02-23
THE BLUE-LIGHr CURE.
An Interview with IFS DIscOverer.

At a recent cali upon Gen. Pleas
anton / found him very corpulent
and affable old gentleman, with
snow-white hair and beard. He ex-
pressed himself happy to give me all
the information in his power about
the virtues of blue light. asked if
he had known of its influence upon
animal and vegetable life for any
time.
s'Yes," he replied, ''Ive had blue
panes in my grapery for more than
ten years, and the action of the light
upon the plants was really wonder
full. Those vines or parts of vines
exposed to the blue rays attained
development wonderfully greater
than those influenced solely by the
ordinary lights, and Mr.. BUST, a
distinguished florist has been very
successful in restoring to healthful
vigor numerous plants, apparently
dying, by the same plan.
"What is the principle, General?"
"Why, the electrO-magnetism de-
veloped by the passage of the SUMS
rays through plain, transparent glass
associated with blue glass possesses
wonderful curative powers.
"What kind of glass do you use?"
ga French glass of dark Mazarine
blue. 1t is colored with cobalt, the
ingredients of the glass and the
metal being fused together"
"What is the method of appliance
say, to little girl with curva-
ture of spine? l know one so affiict-
ed"
"Well, If you want an exceeding
ly strong light, have a whole sash
filled with blue panes and place it
Immediately in front of your ordi-
nary sash. Then bare the little girls
back down to her hip, so as to have
the spine exposed to the influence of
the blue light. Then, when the sun
is shining, seat her on chair little
way from the window so as not be
exposed to the draught coming in
through the crevices of the window,
and let her take a sun bath of about
half an hour or so. Do that for
several days, and if the child desires,
give her anther bath in the after
noon. Give her no medicine, allow
her to eat what agrees with her, and
| am confident that the child will be
greatly relieved-I hope entirely
cured"
s'Is it necessary to have an entire
sash of blue Panes?"
"Oh, no. Generally half dozen
panes are sufficient. But the patient
must move as the sun moves"
ats effect upon your injured back
was astonishing?"
Very true. But it has effected
much more astonishing cures. Only
this morning received a letter from
Cairo, Illinois, from lady who had
been afflicted with a dreadful case of
spinal meningitis. She bad been
suffering for four years, and was
cured by the blue light process"
at is, then, invariably successful"
so far, l am happy to say, it is. !"
care you going to take any steps
to secure a pecuniary profit from
, our discovery"
''Not at all, sir. If people were
going to make money out of it, I'd
charge them for a license. But its
power must not be hampered. 1t is
so essentially a cure by Gods unlim
tied elements that wish all man.
kind to participate in the benefit of
it. All l ask is that any one trying
the process shall send me an account
of its operation and the result.
Whether good or evil, l desire to
know the result in all cases.
"Well, then, as l understand it,
anyone suffering from local disease
is simply to obtain window-panes of
dark Mazarine blue, French the best;
place it in front of the ordinary PLAN
window glass, so that the light will
pass through the blue Immediately
upon coming from the ordinary
glass, the diseased part to be direct
ly exposed to the blue rays. This
treatment is particularly eficaeious
in all diseases of the spine. Any
one trying it is not at all indebted
to you in a pecuniary sense, but is
asked only to send you a minute de-
scription of the effect produced upon
their systems.
"That's it, sir, concise enough to
telegraph"
'Thank you, SIR"