Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-02-02
a REMARKABLE STATEMENT.

GLAsS-WONDERFUL EFFECTS ON AMI
NAL AND VEGETABLE E-S PEG.
PIE CURED BY SITTING UNDER IT
BALD HEADS COVERED WITH HAIR
NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM AND CON.
SUMPTION CURED,
&C., &C., &C.
The Chicago Tribune" contains a most
remarkable statement, or rather state
ments, concerning some wonderful cures
and other effects resulting from the use of
light transmitted through blue glass. The
publication was made in Chicago, OF the
18th inst, and Capt. A. M. Hamilton, Of
| Staunton, who has just returned from that
| city, says the excitement over it was
amusing. Everybody in the place was
buying blue glass, and IN many of the win
dows of the houses it could be seen in scat
tered panes. Gen. A. J. ~Pleasanton, Of
| Philadelphia, is a graduate Of West Point,
and was afterwards a major general in the
q. S. army. Some months ago he pubs
lished a book entitled "Blue and Sun
| Lights" which contained many startling
| statements, and which was facetiously
| commented on by the press of the country.
1t has long been a known fact that the
blue rays of the SUMS light has great eff
feet on vegetation, but it's effects OF ami
NAL life were not recognized. Gen. Pleas
anton has a farm near Philadelphia, where
he has been experimenting with it. The
correspondent of the Tribune" gives some
of the startling results:
BLUE LIGHT UPoN ANIMALS.
His first experiment was with a litter of
pigs, which he placed in a pen which was
lighted by blue and plain glass inserted in
the roof in equal proportions. This litter
| gained wonderfully in weight, size. and
| Strenyth, and, at the end of a few months,
were found to weigh~very much more than
| a similar litter raised in the usual way.
| He next experimental with an Attorney
bull-calf, which was SO puny and weak at
its birth that the manage OF the farm said
it could not live. 1t was put under blue
| glass, and in tWenty-four hours it was able
to stand up, and WAS taught to drink milk:
in four months it was d perfectly-developed
bull, strong and vigorous, anu was turned
in with a herd OF cows, and has since ful-
| tiled every expectation regarding him.
Subsequently other experiments gave him
| CUtllluCuCCs Jill INV Gal LA N%coAS WV
raised under blue glass, howing great
| vigor and a most surprising precocity. A
| beifer becomes d mother when IA months
old, and the COWS and their progeny are
| healthy and strong, Il the former are
great mixers. 1t is generally held that
heifers should not bear young Lefore they
are 4 ears Old. but, under the llt1ue &c OF
blue glass, they do SO without injury when
Is months old, thus saving tie expense OF
Keeping them through W and a halt years.
The beneficial effect Of the associated plain
| and blue rays Of the SUMS light upon vege-
table aud animal life having been demon
trated. to the wonder and amaZelneit OF
all who had observed the experiments,
their effect was tried upon
VARIOUS SICK PERSONS.
The most astonishing results have been
| obtained, which are certified to in such
manner as to leave no doubt regarding
| them. Commodore Goldsborough, who
had read something regarding Gen. Pleas
onton7s discovery. relates the case OF d
lady who premAturely gave birth to a child,
{ which was weak and puny, weighing but
three and a half pounds at birth. There
were blue curtains to the windows OF the
room in which tile child W S reared, and
i these were arranged SO that the llsht en0
Lerinu the room came about equally through
the blue curtains and the plain glass Of the
windows. The child began to thrive, de-
veloped q tremendous appetite, while the
tactical system Of the mother was greatly
excited, and her supply Of milk greatly in
creased. The child grew rapidly in health,
| strength and size, and, at the end OF four
months, apeighed tacenty-tUo pounds. Com
mudore Goidsborough eXperim ented with
Two broods ofthickens, placing one under
blue glass, and the other i'll an ordinary
coop. The former soon showed the stlmu-
lating effects of the blue glass, their growth
being almost visible from day to day, and
their strength, size, and vigor far exceed
| ing tlat Of the chickens in the ordinary
coop. This is testimony from a gentleman
of high standing, who IS in the habit OF
carefully weighing his words. The
WIFE OF A PHILADELPHIA PHYSICIAN
was suffering from "a complication of dis
orders, and the medical. fraternity of New
York and Philadelphia could do nothing
for her. Her husband, DR.. BeckWith,
! writes that she was suffering from nervous
irritation and exhaustion. which resulted
in severe neuralgia and rheumatic pains;
depriving her Of sleep and appetite for food,
producing d great debility and a Wasting
away of the body. The lady and her nus
band had abandoned hope of her recovery.
| Gen. Pleasanton recommended the trial OF
| GIl6 UluC gldDS, btld ~ ~
with arranged one sash OF a window with
| alternate panes of blue and common glass.
| His wife then exposed to the effect of the
associated rays of blue and plain light
! those portions of her body which were al
| fected by neuralgia. In three minutes she
| experienced relief, and in ten minutes the
pains disappeared. With each application
of the associated lights, her pains became
less, her appetite and strength returned,
and in three weeks she was restored TO her
normal h%ealthful condition. This lady had
been losing her hair in consequence Oh her
sickness, there being several bald places on
her head. Under the stimulating effects
of the blue glass, the hair began to grow
vigorously, and the bald places were soon
covered with a luXuriant growth OF hair.
DIR. Beckwith, in relating this case, says
From nv observations of the blue and
sun light upon my wife, | regard it as the
greatest stimulaut and most powerful tonic
that I know of in medicine. 1t will be in
valuable in typhoid cases, cases of debility,
nervous depression, and the like"
W MAJoR-GENERALs,
old friends of Gen. Pleasonton, were af-
ficted with rheumatism in their forearms,
from their elbo. joints to their finger
n SO severe at time that they were IN
able to hold pens. They determined 10
TRY Pleasanton's blue glass" and accord
ingiy obtained apiece Of blue glass and set
it up loosely in one of their windows. For
three days they barred their arms and held
them in the associated blue and sun light
for thirty minutes. Each day brought them
relief, and at the end Of three days the
rheumatism had disappeared. Two years
later they both Informed Gen. Pleasanton
that they had not had a return of rheu~
matism in any form. A. little child that
had, from it's birth, scarcely any use Of its
legs, was taken to play. daily in q COON
where blue glass formed a portion Of one of
the windows. In a very short time it OBJ
tanned the use OF its legs, and learned to
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