Sunlight and health / by C.W. Saleeby.

  • Caleb Saleeby
Date:
[1923]
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Credit: Sunlight and health / by C.W. Saleeby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUNLIGHT AND HEALTH CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY IN this volume, designed for the medical profession and the public, to commend sunlight as the primary and hitherto most neglected means of health and medicine against disease, the attempt is made, with the most recent data, to state the case for a lifelong conviction of the author, which he has steadily followed in his own domestic ways. No new discovery does he here attribute to himself. No argument about priority seems appropriate to i any modern when we learn that Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, used the sunlight. The only personal claim here made is that the subject has ; hitherto been neglected, to our immense loss, that a few clinicians here and there have used sunlight, that none of them have understood its action, that i only by exact scientific research can its action be | understood, and that persistent reiteration on the ii part of an observer who, having learnt much, asked for more, has given us an authoritative scientific : committee, under the aegis of the Privy Council of I the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ) to study the subject, and to find the scientific bases
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