The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-09
THE BLUE.LIGHT CURE.

Additional Evidence of Cures Effected-In-
terview with Gen. Pieasanton, Its Dlscov-
erer-How to select the Hest shade and
How tn Arrange IL.
A correspondent of the New York
World has recently had an interview
with Gen. Pleasonton, with the follow
ing result
found him very corpulent and affa-
BILE old gentleman, with snow-white hair
and beard. He expressed himself happy
to give me all the information in his
power about the virtues of blue light. L
asked if he had known of its influence
upon animal and vegetable life for any
time.
eyes," he replied, "Pve had blue
panes in my grapery for more than ten
years, and the action of the light upon
the plants was really wonderful. Those
vines or parts of vines exposed to the
blue rays attained development won
derfully greater than those influenced
solely by the ordinary lights, and Mr.
Buist, distinguished florist, has been
very successful in restoring to healthful
vigor numerous plants, apparently dy-
ing, by the same plan.
"What is the principle, General? ?"
"Why, the electromagnetic devel-
oped by the passage of the suns rays
through plain, transparent glass associat-
ed with blue glass possesses wonderful
curative powers.
"What kind of glass do You use pa
"a French glass of dark Mazarine
blue. 1t is covered with cobalt, the in
gradients of the glass and the metal be-
ing fused together,
"What is the method of appliance
say to little girl with curvature of the
spine? L know one so afflicted"
Well, if you want an exceedingly
strong light, have a whole sash filled
with blue panes and place it Immediately
IN front of your ordinary 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 away from the window, so
MS not to be exposed to the draught COM
ing in through the crevices of the win
dow, and let her take sun bath of about
half an hour or so. Do that for several
days, and, if the child desires, give her
another bath in the afternoon. Give her
no medicine, allow her to eat what agrees
with her, and L am confident that the
child will be greatly relieved-I hope
entirely cured"
- is 1T necessary to have an entire
sash of blue panes ?'
"Oh, no. Generally half dozen
panes are sufficient. But the patient
must move rs the sun moves"
=" Its effect upon your injured back
was astonishing?"
Every true. But it has effected
much more astonishing cures. Only
this morning L received letter from
Cairo, Illinois, from lady who had been
afflicted with n dreadful case of spinal
meningitis. She had been suffering for
four years, and was cured by the blue
light process"
" lis it, then, invariably successful ?"
" Are you going to take any steps to
secure pecuniary profit from your dis
covery?"
"Not at all, sir. If people were going
to make money out of 1T, I'd charge them
for license. But it's power must not be
hampered. 1t is so essentially cure by
Gods unlimited elements that | wish all
mankind 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 III all
cases"
"Well, then, as / understand it, any
one suffering from local disease is
simply to obtain window-panes of dark
Mazarine blue, French the best place it
in front of the ordinary plain window
glass, so that the light Will pass through
the blue immediately upon coming from
the ordinary glass, the diseased part to
he directly exposed to the blue rays.
This treatment is particularly etficacious
i'll all diseases of the spine. Anyone
trying it is not mt all indebted to you in
"A pecuniary sense, but is asked only to
send you minute description of the eff
feet produced upon their systems 2"
"Thats it, sir, concise enough to tele-
graph"