Year: 1877

Quite an interest has Deen aWak-
ened in the public mind by the re-
port of remarkable, not TO say won
derful, results said to have followed
the experiments made in regard to
Gen. Pleasanton's discovery as TO
the effects of blue light on disease.
The reader will probably better un
derstand the matter by reading the
following extract from letter writ
ten at Philadelphia and published
in the New York World:


At a recent call upon Gen. Pleas
anton found him a very corpulent
and affable old gentleman with snow
white hair and beard. He expressed
himself happy to give me all the in
formation in his power about the
virtues of blue light. l asked if he
had known of its influence upon an
imal and vegetable life for any
time.


"Yes," 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 a developement wonderful
ly greater than those influenced sole
ly by the ordinary light, and Mr..
Buist, a distinguished florist, has
been very successful in restoring To
healthful vigor numerous plants, ap
parently dying, by the same plan"


"What is the principle, General|


"Why, the electro magnetism de-
veloped by the passage of the suns
rays through plain, transparent
glass associated with blue glass pos
sesses wonderful curative powers"


what kind OF glass do you use|


"a French glass of dark Mazi-
rine blue. 1t is covered with co
bait, the ingredients of the glass
and the metal being fused together"


What is the method of appliance
say, to little girl with curvature
Of the spine9 l know of one so af-
flicted."


"Well, If you want an exceedingly
strong light, have a whole sash filed
with the blue panes, and place it i'm
mediately in front of your ordinary
sash. Then bare the little girls
back down to the hip, so as to have
the spine exposed To the influence
of the blue light. Then, when the
sun is shining, seat her on a chair
a little way from the window, so as
not TO be exposed TO the draught
coming in through the crevices Of
the window, and let her take a 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 med
icine, and allow her to eat what
agrees with her, and l am confident
that the child will be greatly re.
lieved-I hope entirely cured"


as it necessary to have an entire
sash of blue panesY


"Oh, no. Generally half dozen
panes are sufficient. But then
the patient must move as the sun
moves"


"Its effect upon your injured back
was astonishing"


"Very true. But it has effected
much more astonishing cures. On
ly this moring / received a letter
from Cairo, H., from a lady who
had been afflicted with dreadful
case of spinal MENINGITIS. She
had been suffering for four years,
and was cured by the blue light
process"


ais it, then, invariably success
fulY'


"So.far, / am happy TO say, it is"


care you going TO take any steps
to secure a pocuniary profit from
your discoveayT'


"Not at all, sir. If people are
going TO make money out OF it, I'd
charge them for a license. But its
power must not be hampered. 1t is
so essentially a cure by Gods un-
limited elements that ! wish all
mankind to participate in the bene
fit Of it. All l ask is that any one
trying the process shall send me an
account Of the operation and the re-
suit. Whether good or evil, desire
to know the result in all cases"


well, then, as / understand il,
any one suffering from a local dis
ease 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 dis
eased part to be directly exposed TO
the blue rays. This treatment is
particularly efficacious in all diseas
es of the spine. Any one trying it
is not at all indebted to you IN pc
cuniary sense, but is asked only TO
send you a minute description OF
the effect produced upon the sys-
tenn"


"That's it, sir, concise enough to
telegraph"


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