The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-15
VIRTUES OF BLUE GLASS.

STA and Other Ailments Eradicated.
Maj. Gen. Pleasonton recently read,
before the Philadelphia Society for Pro
noting Agriculture, lengthy memoir,
which contains vast amount of interest
ing facts in regard to his blue-glass
speciality. We give below an abstract of
this notwithstanding paper:
The General cites remarkable case in
which the power of the associated blue
and sunlight was manifested in the cure
OF human disease.
In the latter part Of August, 1871, he
visited q physician in Philadelphia, whom
he knew, and found him In great distress
because he feared that he was about to
lose his wife, who was suffering from
disorders which had baffied the skill of
most eminent physicians. She had great
pains in her head and neck, and In the
lower part of her back, could not sleep,
and was rapidly wasting away. The
General asked him why he did not try
blue glass, and the doctor said that wives
would frequently reject the advice OF
husbands, while they would accept it If
offered by any one else. If Gen. Pleas
enton would advise her to use it, he
thought it not unlikely that she would
accept. The General called upon her,
found her looking very miserable, greatly
emaciated, and her voice feeble. He
asked her why she didn't try blue glass,
and she replied that she had tried SO
many things and had had SO many doc
tors that she was out of conceit of all
remedies. Finally, however, she con-
sented to try it the next day. Six days
after the physician wrote to Gen. Pleas
onton that since his wife had been under
the blue glass the hair on her head had
begun to grow, not merely longer, but in
places which were bald new hair was
coming out thick. Two days subsequent
ly the General called On the doctor to
see how the experiment succeeded. His
wife entered, and, being asked how the
treatment answered, said it was doing
her the greatest possible good. When
she put her naked foot under the blue
light, all the pains in the leg ceased, and
the pains in her back were less, and there
was general improvement in her health.
Three weeks afterward the doctor said
that the arrangement Of blue and SUM-
light had been complete success with
his wife. Her pains had left her, she
slept we'll, her appetite had returned,
and she had already gained much flesh.
This physician, Dr.. S. N. Beckwith,
wrote letter to Gen. PleasontOn on the
subject in which he says that he intro
duced an equal number Of panes Of clear
and blue glass into the, sash, and then
his wife exposed to the action of these
associated lights those portions of her
person where she had neuralgia. In
three minutes the pains were greatly
subdued, and in ten minutes almost en-
tirely ceased for the time being,
whether in the head, feet, or spine.
With each application of the sun and
blue light bath relief was given name
diately.
During the autumn of 1871 one of
Gen. Pleasonton's sons, about % years
OF age, a very vigorous, muscular young
man, had severe attack of rheumatism
of the sciatic nerve in his left hip and
thigh, from which he had been unable to
obtain any relief. He tried the asso-
ciated sun and blue light ON his neck,
spine, and hip. In three weeks every
symptom of the disorder disappeared,
and he has had no return of it since.
In the beginning Of 1873 Mr.. Henry
H. Holloway, bookseller in Phila-
delphia, consulted Gen. Pleasonton on
the subject of his mothers illness. She
had been confined to her bed for more
than two months with excruciating pains
in head and spine, could not sleep, was
rapidly wasting away, and the family
were in despair lest she should die. II
the General thought these sunlight baths
would relieve his mother, he wished to
have them tried. The General thought
they would. The experiment was tried
with the following result: A few days
after several sun-baths were taken in
succession she surprised the entire fami-
ly by getting up and dressing herself,
while they were at breakfast. She con-
tinued to improve rapidly, and has now
almost regained her usual health. Dur
ing most of the time of her illness she
suffered from an intense pain in the up
per part of the spine and her head, and
the galvanic battery had been regularly
used in the hope of mitigating it. The
sun baths lessened this pain materially,
and induced protuse persplratlOn that
relieved the interior organs from their
distractions, which medicines and the
galvanic battery had failed to do. The
General subsequently saw this lady, who
stated to him that for two years prior to
the use of these baths she had had no
perceptible perspiration, but after the
third of them the most copious perspira
ton broke out all over her, particularly
in her neck and shoulders. She had
called her daughter to witness it, who
scraped it with her hands from her neck
and shoulders as a groom does from
horse that has been hard driven or rid
den in summer.
Mr.. Holloway, the gentleman whose
mothers case is given above, tried these
sun-baths for rheumatism with which he
was afflicted, and after four of them had
ne returns of rheumatism, though six
months had elapsed, and he had been
much exposed in stormy weather.
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