, 1877-03-17
Blue Glass as a Medicinal Agent.
RN DIR. Z. =. I1eI!ogg.

which physicians aud The laiiy, The formef es"
pecially. should welcome ss appropriate supple
menrs at leas. to the medical art OF to-day
Il is cerraiuly worthy OF confederation 81
les-t thought.
While the cid routinist may say; There
are wsys enough already fOr healing toe
sick, and | have good success with my pa
,ieut-: what Is the use OF bothering over
lot Of new tangled notions and theories.
which may be the invention of some VISION
airy mind?'' Well, it may be We have ways
enough, perhaps TOO many, for really lhere
but Que way, and thai the night why out
the methods of reaching the night path may
be many aud yet all good. How We'll we ah
know the difficulty in treating. Dof 10 SAY
curing oar cousump,ives, orr nervous diseaser'
and n thousand -and-vne chronic ailments.
Should We net gladly embrace any new course
Of procedure thai gives promise OF better SUE
Cess III those directions?
But, how shall We fnd better way than
We now have and follow Z Let us each give
the subject thought aad study; ezaInlne
more carefully the laws OF nature, ana see
how she does her work. NewfUn was child
of nature, and be watched her ways ana
led her laws, and It resulted IN kno~iedge
for the coming generations 1he la" oi
graviiation existed before Newton WAS oorn
but he rrad the law and interpreted ittor our
benefit. The use Of electricity TOR the service
of man might have been ascertsined long
wears before Franklin's time; but others hah
never properly studied the book which was
ever open before them. And so numerous
examples might BE- mentioned of the benefits
to be gained by closely observing the work
inys Of nature laws but will only add one
more. the result OF which Is Of interest - all.
Hahnemaun WAS thoroughly ednca'ed as
phv.ic:an of thu old school, and for time
| practicrd his profession, ana IN fact acquired
! nororieiy for his skill; but he WAS not satisfied
with the loose way which then prevailed OF
miuisrrring to the s:ok, and be besan the
| close study OF nature. He thought there
! ought 10 be a law, and he Was Determined to
! turn the pages until he found it. The results
we know, as do 50 many thousands, aye mil
/ lions, who have reaped the benefits OF that
study 10 which he devoted much time.
| We are not ali Hahnrmanns, but We may,
! like him, try 10 ttnefit our fellow-man IN
some way hat shall bring down praises upon
| our memories.
MANY have opened up to the world new
and valuable project or scientific law, who
have perhaps been entirely wron: IN the
start; bat the mere fact of being wrong has
led to the right in the eud. What if there
are mistakes IN theories, we are not Solons,
| and the IN ,n,le of charity will hang about
our shoulders the more closely as We strive
| the more 20 benefit others Let ns remember,
| in short, tina. ii il through mistakes and fail
ures, that the great 81 good has many times
been aecompli>hei-that good resnlrs are ar
! rived al, and fixed laws, ascertained mega
| lively.
The question of primary importance Is tins
! l. there any advantage IN the Use of blae
| glass, or any other colored glass, in curing
disease? l am perfectly willing to admit
that in certain cases blue or other c0lors, blue
and red parhaps. may be employed 10 advan'
! tage in the treatment of disease. Without II
| doubt, coluTed lights certainly do affect the
nerves of people and animals As II single
instance OF this, | call to mind the we'll
/ known use Of The red cloth 10 inCIje the rage
| Of The wild bull in the Spanish arena While
| some coIors are exciting III their action upon
the nerves, others may te found quletIug AID
/ soothing 1t IL, therefore. not unreasonable
| to suppose that colored lights might be tonnd
( in or=tain nervous di--a-e--
| Nature Is clothed in blue-the surrounding
atmosphere is blue. No matter whether We
look ut il by night or day, still it Is blue. Is
/ it not true that the suns light comes to us
! through this blue atmosphere, and ia not
! bue the prevailing color in everything
| around us? Why. then. if nature has given
ia blue light which is ample fur us in
] . Il -
sify this blue light 10 meet the demands Of a
diseased condition
Sunlight il made up of heat ray-, luminous
rays, and chemical rays. When ihIs light Is
passed through a prism 1t Is decJmposed and
the different rays are separated from each
other, forming spectrum, III which the
heat rays most intense at one end, aud
from this eud we pass through the colors, red,
orange, yellow, green. blue. indigo and vlU-
let, and then through the dark chemical rays.
By examining ;hI- spectrum through blue
glass only part can be seen, VIZ: the blue.
The blue glass shutting out entirely he red,
green, yellow and violet, 80 that they cannon
be seen while the blue ray in the spectrum
i visible From this We may learn two
things: First, that the blue glass is iucap-
able of adding any blue light 10 the amOuur
always present III the sunlight. Second.
that the value Of the blue glass N treating
disease, as compared with sunlight, hes nut
III the blue rays Transmitted, but In the alb
senee Of obnoxious or aggrava'Iug colors or
lights.
do no, wish to convey the idea that all
forms OF disease can be cured or at least help
ed, but do not hesitate IN saying that some
conditions may be materially beHetitted, and
hope that further researches III this direction
may still " iden the medicinal hOrIzUn- While
We may with propreIy consider the o'ue
glass theory somewhat visionary and distant.
let US accept the motto: In tafS mdaS, m
dlbiis ibtyfaSs, in omnibus ehdrfaSj aud let US
sill furrher, "prove all things, holding fast
to that which Is good.
General Pie-santon's experiments prove
beyond a doubt, that with the use of Dine
glass upon the vegetable kingdom, more sat
isfactory results are obtained lie found
that iu II giveu time grape cuttings produced
a very much larger yield under blue glass,
than they did under clear or white glass, and
still results were produced with mix
turS ID and blue. Experiments by
DIR. O. Pease, of San Francisco, with diff
prent col0Ts, show couclu-Ively that much
following diseases Phthisis, chronic brOn-
chiiis, typhoid fever with tardy convales-
eence, nervous prosIrarion and ianacy-
have in publisaed form several articles from
DR.. Pease with experiments aud results,
which were offered and read before the Pa
eifie Homeops hIc Medical Society OF Califor-
lila His experiments date back 10 1864.
The following ex raet from the Ge-tte deS
HOspRGsI
DR.. Ponza, director Of the lunatic asylum,
at Alessaudria, Piedmont, having conceived
the idea that the solar rays might have some
curative power in diseases Of The brain, com
municated his views TO Father Secchi, OF
Rome, who replied in tie following terms =
The idea of studying the disturbed slate OF
luna,ics ID connection with magnetic per,ur-
ss,sri1u. and with the coiOrs. especially violet,
light Of the SUP, Is Of remarkable imPor-
,anee. aud / consider it well worth being
cultivated. sucu light Is easily obtained by