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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[ March, 



now all his cattle are raised under blue glass, 

 showing great vigor and the most surprising 

 precocity. A heifer beeonies a mother wlien 

 14 months old, and the cow.s and their proge- 

 ny are healthy and strong, and the former 

 are great milkers. It is generally held that 

 heifers should not bear young before they are 

 four years old, but under the influence of blue 

 glass, they do so without injury when 18 

 months old, thus saving the expense of keep- 

 ing them tlirough two and a half years. The 

 beneficial efft'Ct of the associated plain and 

 blue rays of the sun's light upon vegetable and 

 animal life having been demonstrated, to the 

 wonder and amazement of all who had ob- 

 served the experiments, their eftect was tried 

 upon 



Various Sick Persons. 



The most astonishing results have been ob- 

 tained, which are certified to in such a man- 

 ner as to leave no doubtregarding them. Com- 

 modore Goldsborough, who had read some- 

 thing regarding Gen. Pleasonton's di.scovery, 

 relates the case of a lady who prematurely 

 gave birth to a child, which was weak and 

 puny, weighing but three and a half pounds 

 at birth. There were blue curtains to the 

 windows of the room in which the cliild was 

 reared, and those were arranged so that the 

 light entering the room came about equally 

 through tlie blue curtains and tlie glass of the 

 windows. Tlie child began to thrive, devel- 

 oped a tremendous appetite, while the lacteal 

 system of the mother was greaily excited, and 

 her supply of milk greatly increased. The 

 child grew rapidly in health, strength and size, 

 and at the end of four months weighed twen- 

 ty-two pounds. Commodore Goldsborough ex- 

 perimented with two broods of chickens, plac- 

 ing one under blue glass and the other in an 

 ordinary coop. The former soon showed the 

 stimulating effects of the blue glass, their 

 growth being almost visible from day to day, 

 and their strength, size and vigor far exceeden 

 that of the chickens in the ordinary coop. This 

 is testimony f i ora a gentleman of high stand- 

 ing who is in the habit of carefully weighing 

 his words. The 



Wife of a Philadelphia Physician 



was suffering from a complication of disorders, 

 and the medical fraternity of New York and 

 Philadelphia could do nothing for her. Her 

 husband. Dr. Beckwith, writes that she was 

 suffering from nervous irritation and exhaus- 

 tion, wiiicli resulted in severe neuralgic, and 

 rheumatic pains, depriving her of sleep and 

 appetite for food, producing great debility and 

 a wasting away of the body. The lady and 

 her husband had abandoned hope of her re- 

 covery. Gen. Pleasonton recommended the 

 trial of the blue glass, and accordingly Dr. 

 Beckwith arranged one sash of a window with 

 alternate panes of blue and common glass. 

 His wife then exposed to the effect of the as- 

 sociated rays of blue and plain light those por- 

 tions of her body which were affected by neu- 

 ralgia. In three minutes she experienced re- 

 lief, and in ten minutes the pains disappeared. 

 With each application of the associated lights, 

 her pains became less,herappetite and strength 

 returned and in three weeks she was restored 

 to h'^r normal, healthful condition. This lady 

 had been losing her hair in consequence of her 

 sickness, there being several bald places on 

 her head. Under the stimulating effects of 

 the blue glass, the hair began to grow vigor- 

 ously, and tlie bald places were soon covered 

 with a luxuriant growth of hair. Dr. Beck- 

 with, in relating this case, says: "From my 

 observations, of the blue and sunlight upon 

 my wife, I regard it as the greatest stimulant 

 and most powerful tonic that I know of in 

 medicine. It will be invaluable in typhoid 

 cases, cases of debility, nervous depression, 

 and the like." 



Two Major Generals, 

 old friends of Gen. Pleasonton. were afllicted 

 with rheumatism in their forearms, from 

 their elbow-joints to their finger-ends, so se- 

 vere at times that they were unable to hold 

 pens. They determined to try "Pleasonton's 

 blue glass," and accordingly obtained a piece 



of blue glass and set it up loosely in one of 

 their windows. For three days they bared 

 tlieir arms and held them in the associated 

 blue and sun light for thirty minutes. Each 

 day brought them relief, and at the end of 

 three days the rheumatism had disappeared. 

 Two years later they both informed Gen. 

 Pleasonton that they had not had a return of 

 rheumatism in any form. A little child that 

 had, from its birth, scarcely any use of its legs 

 was taken to play daily in a room where blue 

 glass formed a portion of one of the windows. 

 In a very short time it obtained the use of its 

 legs and learned to walk and run without 

 ditliculty. Numerous other cases are men- 

 tioned in Gen. Pleasonton's book showing 

 that there can be no question of the stinmlat- 

 ing and curative effects of the as.sociated blue 

 and sunlight. But I prefer to give my own 

 experience, and then follow with Gen. 

 Pleasonton's explanation. A lady of my 

 family, about si.x weeks ago, had a 



Violent Hemorrhage of the Lungs, 

 and for ten days raised more or less blood dai- 

 ly. She was very much weakened by the loss 

 of blood, and considerably frightened withal. 

 I obtained some blue glass and placed it in 

 the window where she was in the habit of sit- 

 ting, the blue glass constituting one-half the 

 lower sash of the window. The lady sat dai- 

 ly in the associated lights, allowing the blue 

 rays especially to fall upon the nerves of the 

 back of the neck for about an hour a day. 

 The second day, the sun's rays being unusu- 

 ally strong, she got "too much blue glass," 

 and at night felt peculiar sensations in the 

 back of the neck, among the nerves, and an 

 unpleasant fullness in the head. Tliese sen- 

 si" tions wore off next day, and since then she 

 has not remained so long at a time under the 

 blue glass. But from the first she began to 

 grow stronger, her face soon gained its natur- 

 al fullness, and in a week she was, to all ap- 

 pearance, as well as ever. Of course she was 

 not cured of the trouble in her lungs in so 

 short a time, but the soreness in her chest has 

 passed away, and she begins to feel well again. 

 After sitting in the associated light a week, 

 a large number of red pimples came out on 

 her neck and shoulders, an indication that the 

 treatment was bringing to the surface the hu- 

 mors of the blood. In a letter to me Gen. 

 Pleasonton says: "I am satisfied that if this 

 treatment shall be continued through the winter 

 and spring, any tuberculous development that 

 may exist in the lungs will be arrested, its pus 

 absorbed into the circulation, and then thrown 

 off from the blood in the e.xcretion (as has oc- 

 curred already in the spots on the body), the 

 wounds of the tubercles will be cicatrized 

 and the lady restored to a condition of good 

 health." InthesaineletterGen. Pleasonton re- 

 lates an agreeable incident whicli occurred to 

 him but a few weeks since. A lady and her 

 daughter called to see him, and announced 

 that they had come from Corning, N. Y., to 

 Philadelphia,for the express purpose of thank- 

 ing him for 



Saving the Daughter's Life. 



Four years ago she was afflicted with a vio- 

 lent attack of spinal meningitis. Her sufferings 

 were indescribable, but continuous. Every 

 conceivable remedy had been resorted to diu'- 

 ing these four years, but the patient received 

 no benefit. Her nervous system at last be- 

 came so disordered that the slightest sound or 

 the most gentle agitation of the air threw hi'r 

 into the most agonizing sufferinsr. vShe was 

 wasted away in flesh, could not sleep at night, 

 had no appetite, and her life was despaired of 

 Hearing of Gen. Pleasonton's discovery in 

 associated lights, her parents determiiwd to 

 try it. A bay window was fitted with alter- 

 nate panes of blue and plain slass, and the 

 young lady sat daily in the light which stream- 

 ed tliDUgh them. Her physicians, of course, 

 laughed at the idea, pronounc -d the whole 

 thing a humbug, etc., as is the habit of pro- 

 fessional gentlemen whenever any new idea is 

 broached. The physician was dismissed, and 

 the young lady relied wholly upon the blueglass 

 treatment for her restoration to health. The 



lady says that on entering the room thus 

 lighted, the pains from which she was suffer- 

 ing almost immediately ceased. 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, her appetite 

 returned, and with it her strength; she be- 

 gan to gain tiesh, her sleeplessness disappeared, 

 and in short, she was speedily restored to 

 health. 



Hope for the Bald-Headed. 

 A singular feature of this young lady's case 

 was that her hair all came out and she became 

 as bald-headed as an egg. Her physician ex- 

 amined the scalp with a microscope, and de- 

 clared that there were no roots of hair remain- 

 ing, and that, consequently, she would never 

 again have a natural head of hair. This au- 

 noimcement to a young lady was worse than 

 wotild have been the reading of her death war- 

 rant. Better the cold grave and its attendant 

 worm than to go through life with a wig. Under 

 the blue glass treatment, the hair did begin 

 to grow, the young lady discarded her wig, 

 and when she called upon Gen. Pleasonton 

 she showed him a luxuriant growth of hair 

 which any young lady might envy. She was 

 profusely gratefid to the General for having 

 restored her hair, and incidentally saved her 

 life. So much for examples and illustrations. 

 These and numerous others which I might 

 cile if you had space to print them, show that 

 the blue associated with the sunlight have a 

 wonderfully stimulating effect upon both veg- 

 etable and animal life, and have cured some 

 diseases with which the human family is af- 

 rticted. If they will do this, everybody ought 

 to know it, for the treatment costs nothing, 

 and is a great saving of doctors' bills. Now 

 for 



Gen. Pleasonton's Explanation 



of the curative effects of the associated lights. 

 In his letter to me he puts it thus tersely: 

 "Sunlight passes through plain, transparent 

 glass with very slight obstruction, as it does 

 through the atmosphere and ether of space; it 

 produces no heat, for the glass remains as cold 

 as the outside atmosphere while the sunlight 

 passes through it. When, however, the ad- 

 joining sunlight, moving with the same veloc- 

 ity as the first mentioned, viz.: 186,000 miles 

 per second, falls upon the blue panes of glass,six 

 of the seven primary rays of sunlight are sud- 

 denly arrested by it, only the blue rays being 

 permitted to pass through it into the apart- 

 ment. The sudden stoppage of these six raj's 

 of light, with its enormous velocity, produces 

 friction; this friction evolves negative electri- 

 city, which is the electricity of sunlight pass- 

 ing throtigh the ether of space and our cold 

 atmosphere, both of which being negatively 

 electrified impart their electricity by induc- 

 tion to the rays of sunlight as they pass. The 

 blue glass is oppositely electrified. When the 

 opposite electricities, thus brought together, 

 meet at the surface of the glass, their con- 

 junction evolves heat and magnetism; the 

 heat expands the molecules of the glass, and 

 a current of electro-magnetism jiasses into 

 the room, imparting vitality and strength to 

 any animal or vegetable life within it. When 

 the atmosphere of the room becomes thus 

 electro-magnetized, its inhabitants i-aunot fail 

 to derive the greatest benefit from being in 

 it." Gen. Pleasonton's book is devoted to 

 the scientific discussion of bis theory, and to 

 the recital of proof to sustain him. He bold- 

 ly combats many theories which have been 

 acceiited as established principles, and atily 

 puts forward his own as a substitute. For 

 instances lie denies the 



Newtonian Theory of Gravitation, 

 affirming that there is no such thing. He 

 holds that electricity is the all-controlling- 

 force of nature, and by and through it we live 

 and have our being, the earth revolves, the 

 planets are sustained in their several places, 

 and all that. He further denies the accepted 

 theory that the sun is an incandescent body, 

 throwing off heated rays, and that there is any 

 heat in the sunlight. He argues that the earth 

 is siu:rouaded by an envelope of atmosphere 



