The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-30
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How the 6sIass II Prepared
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New YORK Evening Eost.l
General Pleasauton's book on the
remarkable medical qualities of sun
light thrown through blue glass
has been widely read since its pub
lication, and has resulted in many
experiments with no little success.
It is not understood that General
Pleasanton was the first discOverer
of the good effects of blue light
upon the nervous syatem of man
aud other creatures, but his book
was the fret popular writing upon
that subject, II it was not, indeed,
the fret published treatise upon il
of any kind. DR.. Bayard of Forti-
eth street, in this city, has for long
time past been experimenting upon
the effects of blue hight In sick
rooms, and lately, If we are not
mistaken, he has frequently treated
patients In this way and cured
them.
Asto the exact effect Of the blue
light the opiSions Of scientific per-
sons differ, and 1t - too early now
to discuss the subject from scien-
tigc point of view. 1t 10 certain
that many physicians in this city
aud else " here are now giving their
attention TO this snbject, and that
the demand for blue gIass is IN
creasing every day. Indeed there
appears TO be quite little "corner"
in the blue-glasS market. One of
the Chicago hospitals has SEINE of
its wards fittedtup with blue win
dow pSnes; aud shipment OF one
hundred cases was made only the
other day from New York TO that
city, where the physicians have
been studying the effect of blue
light fer some time past. The mat
ter is under discussion also in the
New York hospitals.
Sunlight passes directly through
the cOlOFless glass, having no Of
feet whatever upon IL, but blue glass
catches and restraints heat, and .
room lighted by blue panes is sain
to be warmer than one with win
dows with ordinary glass. Gener
al Pl0asanton thinks that the blue
light imparts curative qualities to
the atmosphere, therefore, and that
It acts upon the health of the pa
tient In that way, as well rs directly
upon the nerves. A
There are blue lights, alternating
with white, az should always be the
case, be IL remem bered, in the win.
dows Of the aquarium on Bread
way, and It 10 said that the ishes
upon whose tanks this light falls
directly are liYelier and in better
health than others. Certainly, as
Professor Butler, whose experience
with fsh in general, and aquarie In
hoo haAn a~tnS AZ - aaf6
to q reporter OF the Evening Post,
the fishes at this aquarium have
been kept in better health than has
ever been the case in this city be-
fore. An enthusiastic upholder OF
the Pleasanton theory says that the
late lamented whale would not
have lived for two days after his
arrival In New York, had 1t not
been .fer the blue light; and 1t is
understood that he attributes to the
same cause the absurd satisfaction
displayed at all times by the living
hippopotamus.
That blue glass proved to be q
suitable agent in the raising of q
litter of mOtherless pigs has been
asserted by PlessantOn; and gar
deners are beginning to study the
advantages of blue glass in hot
houses. In regard to the effect up
en- the human being, we are told
that in diseases of the eye it is very
useful, which appears to be nat
ural. 1t 10 also used for all nervous
diseases, including neuralgia and
nervous headaches. General Pleas
anton tells, in a letter to a Chicago
newspaper, how he cured himself
by a sun bath in a blue-lighted
room from the effects of q severe
fall from his carriage; and how at
the same time be converted his ply
sician so that he now acknowledges
the merits OF blue glass.
In this city large trade in blue
glass has Just been begun. Mr.. d.
Vid N. Smith, of No. 1863 Broad
way, ono of the oldest glass mer-
chants of New York, at present
gives . great deal of his attention
to this trade. The glass he uses IL
imported from France, and its tint
IL q violet blue. Peddlers have be-
gun, already, to offer blue glass for
medical purposes to chance custo-
mere, but there is blue glass aud
blue glass. The ordinary colored
glasses are merely white glass
''fiashed," that is to say, tinted on
the outside; but the glass necessary
for the new purpose is really blue,
and 10 . much more expensive and
delicate article. When it is fixed,
like ordinary glass, in window
paaes, . pane OF white glass alter
mates with q blue pane. 1t is also
fastened In groOved frames or black
walnut, and so hung in the windo ",
producing the same effect. Mr..
Smith has therefore added another
new business to his old one in the
manufacture Of these frames, which
are made Of various sizes they are
certainly ornamental and produce
q beautiful effect in q room. Mr..
Smith says that he has been freed
entirely from chills and fever by
the blue-glass cure.
Of course the blne-glass excite
ment will be popular subject for
newspaper ridicule. The gentle.
men who proposes to have q pane
set in the top of his head to cure
badness, and the other gentlemen
WhO has had pain there for years
have been heard OF from Newport.
Meanwhile people are becoming
more interested In the subject every
day; dealers are happy, and there
10 something new to talk about
which appears to have In 1t more
substance and interest than many
older topics Of popular cenversa,
ton.
AN INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL
PLEAsANToN.
From this Mornings World.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. Sat Q re.
cent call upon General Pleasantou
found him very corPulent aD6