The Arizona sentinel., 1890-12-06
THE eLUE-GLAsS CRAZE.
BrOwn-SequRrd's Elixir Recalls One
 tho Funniest Medical Excitemcnts.

tho Funniest Medical Excitemcnts.
 In 1876 General Pleasanton published work fully explaining his theory as 70 the infallibility of blue glass for in- 1 gigorating and retaining or restorini
 health. In a subsequent edition h, added list of testimonials from grate-
 ul patients who professed 10 have de- lived immense benefits from the treat nent, and also the full text of the specification for his patients His book was entitled Blue Ray of the l un ight and of tho Blue Color of the
 Ky in Developing Animal and Vege-
 able Life, in Arresting Disease, and
 T Restoring Health in Acute and
 hronic Diseases in Human and Domes-
 c Animals. The General adorned
 he frontispiece with rather unfo:t- mate quotations: "If this theory be rue it upsets all other theories. The converse seems to have been very
 satisfactorily established. A full 'ecord of tho Generals military cx- )erience is also given, apparently as somewhat of a guaranty of good faith. The authors first experiments were
 grape vines. In his greenhouse he ,ubstituted blue for white glass in
 very eighth row and succeeded in producing grapes so fine that all others were rendered insignificant beside them. In 1869 he treated some hogs
 a similar dose and soro little pigs grew and thrived so well that a royal 'oad to fortune in hog-raising seemed 10 have been found. Next he tried tho effect of blue glass on an A,derney bull calf, which grew six inches almost IS by miracle and became veritablo Saul among the little calves Cn tho estate. From hogs and cattle the de- scent to poultry was short and easy, and chicken-house was fitted with just the right proportion of blue glass. The result was as foreovdained. Tho young chicks were ready for the boiler almost as soon as they emerged from the shell, and those that escaped the usual and proper spring-chicken route to oblivion grew into splendidly developed and plumaged birds.
 It needed not implicit belief in Dar- winism to induce the General to ap- ply his experiments to men and women. Architects would be required to so arrange buildings as to insure the introduction of the elixir-lil1e rays 30 that the owners and occupiers might enjoy the marvellous advantages, and mankind will then not only be able to live fast, but can live long and also live well.
 Judged by the fact that the blue glass craze, general as it was during the years 1876 and part of 1877, died out quietly and has long since been decently inferred, some of the testi- rnonials as to its efficacy form very funny reading. They show that if all the writers meant what they wrote General Pleasanton invented an .lixir to cure not only every .ilment but to supersede sur gery and obstetrics. In fact it must have been omnipotent A man with varicose veins was able to throw away his silk stockings after sleeping in room few nights with blue Plass in he windows. Typhoid patients, after a day or two, arose like giants re- freshed and dismissed their phy- sicians. A bald-headed lady was de- lighted to discover an embryo crop of hair after seven days treatment, while another grateful recipient en- arged on the marvellous effects of blue 7 ass on his ancient mule. This once ray and festive quadrupcd had been deaf for ten years, it. limbs were stiff, and it was in . very bad way; but after blue glass was inserted in the ftable window Jack braced up, could hear the word oats if only whispered. could kick its owner across he va d, and generally acted like vivacious three-year-old.
 Excitement ran high and the craze travelled north, south, east and west. The widest stories of cures were cir cuia;ed. Men heard of objects of pub lie sympathy getting cured almost without money and without price aud entirely without trouble, for never was there so passive a treatment recommended, nor one less hampered with dir :ctions as to what shou and should not be eaten and whathabits or vices should be abandoned. The de- mand for blue glass was uch as the most ardent enthusiast never antici- pated. It gradually and finally dawned upon the credulous pubic that they had made themselves rid.cu- lous. blue glass became @ drug on the market, and the people who were sick or wanted to grow young again looked elsewhere for remedies and elixirs. St Louis Globe Democrat.
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