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Show BLUE GLASS, i ""' A Salt Lake Pliysiriau au Advocate Ad-vocate of the Theory. I!V DR. J, H. KJB.SEUICf. ( COSCLUDED. J TWO M AJOli-GENEKAJJi, old friends of lien. I'k-aaouton, were aiUicttfd witii rlieumatiain iu tiieir forrurma, from tueir eibow-juinta to tiieir liiiyer-onUs, eo severe at times thit tiiey were unable to bold pena. Tliey dL-termined to "try Pltiiionton'u bluu tjlasd," and acwrdiugly obtained ob-tained a piece ol blur; gLiss niui set it up looeely iu ono of tiieir window. Fur tiireo day they bared their anus and beld them in tlio associated bluo and eunlitit for thirty minutes. Eauh day brought tliem relief, and at the end of three daya tlie rheuinatism had did appeared. Two ysaru later they both informed Gen. 1'Ieaaoulon that they bad not bad a return of rlieumatiim in any form. A little child, that had from its birth scarcely any use of iU leya, was taken to pluy daily in a room where blue ladd formed a portion of ono of the windows. win-dows. In a very abort time it obtained the use of its legu, and learned to walk and run wittiout ditliculty. Numerous other cases are mentioned in Gen. l'leiaontou's book, showing that there can be n question ol tlio stimulating and curative effects of the associated bine anl sunlight. But I prefer to give my own experience, ex-perience, and then follow Gen. L'leason ton's explanation. A lady of my family, about six weeks ago, had a VIOLENT HEMORRHAGE OF THE LUNGS, and for ten days raised moro or less Wood llflilv. SliO h-iib wry muoli weakened by the 1063 of blood, and considerably frightened wilhal. I obtained some blue glass and placed it ,n H.n wlndniv iviiArA aim Wsm ill the habit of sitting, tho blue glass constituting one-half of tho lower sash of tho window. - The lady sat daily in the associated lights, allowing tho blue rays especially to fall upon the nerves of tho back of the nock for about an hour a day. The second day, the sun's rays being unusually strong, she "got too much biuoglflss," and at night lelt peculiar, sensations in the back of the neck, among tho nerves, and an unpleasant fullness in the bead. These sensations wore oil next day, and eiuco then she has not remained so long at a time under tho blue glass. But from the first she begin to grow stronger, her faco j soon gained its natural fullness, audi iu a week sho was, to all appearances, appear-ances, as well us ever. Of course, I bub was not cured of tho trouble in her lungs in bo short a lioic; but tho soreness in her cheat has passed away, and shu begins to feel well again. After sitting in the associated light for a week, a largo number ol red pimples came out on her neck and shoulders, an indication that the treatment was bringing out to the surface tho humors of the blood. In a letter to me Gen. PicisontoD Bays: ''I am satisfed that if this treatment shall be continued through the winter and spring, any tuberculous development develop-ment that may exist in the lung, will be arrested, its pus absorbed into the circulation, and then thrown of! from tho blood in the excretion (as haB occurred already in the spots i on tho body), and wounds of the tub-lerclcs tub-lerclcs will be cicatrized, and the ' lady restored to a condition of good health." In the same letter Gen.j Pleasonton relates an agreeable incident inci-dent which occurred to him but a few weoks since. A lady and her daughter called to seo him, and announced that they had come from Corning, N". y., to Philadelphia, for the express ex-press purpose of thanking him for SAVING THE DAUGHTER'S LIFE. Four years ago she was afllicted with a violent altnct- r,r upinal munin gitis. Her sufferings were indescribable, indescriba-ble, but continuous. Every conceivable conceiv-able remedy had been resorted to during these Jour years, but the paticut received no benefit. Her nervous system at last became so disordered dis-ordered that the slightest sound or the moat gentle agitation of the air throw her into the most agonizing Buffering. Sho was wasted away in desb, could not Bleep at night, had no appotito, and her life was despaired des-paired ol. Hearing of Gen. Pleason ton's discovery in associated lights, ber parents determined to try it. A bay window was fitted with alternate aanes of blue and plain glass, and :he young lady sat daily in tho light which streamed throueh them. Her physicians, of course, laughed at the idea, denounced the whole thing a humbug, etc., ns is the habit of professional pro-fessional gentlemen whenever any new idea is broached. The physician was dismissed, and the young lady relied re-lied wholly upon the blue glass treatment treat-ment for her restoration iu health. Tho lady Bays, that on catering the room thus lighted their pains from which she was suffering almost immediately im-mediately ceaiicd. They would return in a modified form on leaving the room, but grew less from day to day. Very soon her condition began to improve, im-prove, her appetilo returned, and with it her strength; she bjgan to gain llesb, her sleeplessness disappeared, disap-peared, and in short, sho was speedily restored to health. HOTE VOU THE BALD HEADED. A Biuguiar feature ol this young lady's case was that her hair all came out and she became as bald as an egg. Her physicians examined the scalp with a microscope, and declared that there were no roots of hair remaining, and that consequently she would never again have a natural head of hair. This announcement to a young lady was worse than would have been tho reading of her death warrant. Better the cold grave and its attendant wnrma than tr trr (l,m,..h lit .-itl, wig. Under the blue glass treat-meal, treat-meal, however, the hair did begin to grow, the young lady discarded her wig, and when she called on Gen. Pieasonton she showed him a luxuriant lux-uriant growth of hair, which any young lady might envy. She was profusely grateful to the General for having restored her hair and incidentally inciden-tally ea-ed her life. So much for examples ex-amples and ill List rations. I do not propose to give- the general's gen-eral's theories as to the action of the blue light but will leavo that for investigators in-vestigators to consider for themsolve-by themsolve-by reading his book as published by fccnoner. A few words perhaps vwli not be amiss in explanation of the solar spectrum and the peculiarities and chemical properties ot its ravs it (the spectrum) i, compo-ed 'oi seven diitiuct colored pays viz- Kcd oran-e, yeiiow, green, blue, indigo' violet in oruer a named from below ! upward if the spectrum is vertical. Of theie it has been demonstrated that the yeiiow is the light ray, the red it the heat ray and the violet the chemical ray. Herschel demonstrated by thermometers placed in each rav that that in the violet had risen least but that in the red ray it had attained the ''ji cutest h-ijht w"h:l9 the others were intermediate in their order. But what was moie surprising he found that a thermometer placed be--ow tho red spaca and where there was no hgm at all rose higher than all and it has since been damonstratsd that the hottest place in the spectrum is as far below the red rav as the vio-itt vio-itt U above it. Sj Scheie a Swedish chemijt tried to find out which ray would soonest blacken a snow white preparation of chloride of silver and thereby demonstrate which waa the nioht powerful chemical ray. Ho painted a shet;t of paper with the silver sil-ver chloride and exposing it to the rays of the ;:ictruin carefully noted the results. Ho fuund the blackening blacken-ing (wnich is a chemical change) be-gau be-gau ahiirat instantly in the violet extended to the indigo then lo the blue but went no farther showing clearly that but threo rays of the spectrum pose.-! chemical properties or that but G 7ths of all our nun light h in uny (specific chemical action. Further he- full n J that as with the red tiie heat extended beyond the red ol j the spectrum sj the silver was blackened black-ened even beyond and above the violet vio-let ray. Chlorine and hydrogen ganes j mixed in a bottle in a dark room ex-jplude ex-jplude iuttantly when thrown into the !hunlight, while photography depends i entirely upon this chemical action of j tho blue colored ray? for its success Plants placed in a dark cellar will grow toward tho surface but il a red 1 pane of glass and ono of blue be put 1 in the top the plants will use every j means to avoid the red light and grow steadily toward the blue. Thus nature na-ture asserts herself in favor ol General I I'leaaonton's experiments and if by further investigation his statements ' are corroborated we may expect to find the blue glass forming a component compo-nent part of our materia inodica and the armamentarium of our hospitals. There- is a tendency among mankind to laugh at such simple means and among all classes to avoid as much as possible- the glorious sunlight but there is nothing in all tho phenomena iof nature that we can well afford to throw away and if this discovery proves as successful as it Becma we may expect anon to find in all houses some panes of blue glass as a relief I from Lhosci many aius that flesh is I heir to. I am pleased to learn that the Hon. Win. Jennings has put the uittiuiiuu uiuu iu uia yiapcrj uuu miqu other gentlemen who nro disposed to give it a trial at least and I am satisfied satis-fied they will not be disappointed. I wish I could go moro fully into the subject but this article is already too long and with further developments you may hear from me again. Halt Laky City, March 12th, 1S77. |