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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    Alpes Vaudoises, the first clinic for the treatment of so-called surgical tuberculosis by sunlight; and in 1910 he applied his idea to prevention by the estab¬ lishment of the “ school in the sun,” at Cergnat, just below Leysin. In 1914, he published his book, “ La Cure de Soleil,” but the world catastrophe of that year caused it to be overlooked. In this country his methods have been followed recently by Sir Henry Gauvain, at the Treloar Hospital at Alton and Hayling Island, where very simple sheds and solaria serve to achieve results never approached by Netley, the pretentious and misplaced architecture of which exists in the same county to point the contrast between its century—the last of the ages of darkness—and the dawn in our own. In a very few other places, also, such as the Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children at Carshalton, under Dr. Gordon Pugh—photographs of which from the air show a series of three-sided solaria strongly resem¬ bling the health temple at Cos,—at Leasowe, near Liverpool, at Perrysburg, near Buffalo, in the United States, and, following a recent lecture of mine, at the Heritage Craft Schools, Chailey, Sussex, the sun-cure is employed. At several others, which I have visited, the sun-cure is said to be employed, but is not, the elements of the matter being unknown to the persons in charge. The results of heliotherapy, as seen by myself, or recorded in Rollier’s radiographic and clinical atlas of 1914, or shown by means of illustrations, are unapproached, for certainty, safety, ease, beauty, restoration of function, and happiness during and
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