Light therapeutics; a practical manual of phototherapy for the student and the practitioner : with special reference to the incandescent electric-light bath.

  • John Harvey Kellogg
Date:
1910
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Credit: Light therapeutics; a practical manual of phototherapy for the student and the practitioner : with special reference to the incandescent electric-light bath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE THIS work does not profess to be an exhaustive treatise on the subject of light therapy. It is in- tended rather to serve as a practical manual for the clin- ical use of the electric-light bath in its various forms, and in its various applications, general and local. An effort has also been made, in a small way, to cor- relate the electric-light bath to those other forms of rational physiotherapy which naturally and profitably associate themselves with this newest of physical curative measures. Twenty years ago this work could not have been written. The electric bath had not yet been devised. The photophore, the electric thermophore and most of the other therapeutic methods and appliances described in this manual were not even dreamed of. Probably no non-medicinal remedy has ever found its way so rapidly into general favor as have devices for utilizing the physical properties of light in combating the inroads of disease. The first incandescent light bath was constructed by the author in 1891. After it had been used in the treat- ment of some thousands of patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a bath was exhibited at the Chicago Exposi- tion in 1893. A visitor from Germany saw the bath, visited Battle Creek to become familiar with the tech- nique of its use, and on returning to Germany began its manufacture and sale in that country. German medi-
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