Some Remarks upon the Finsen Light Treatment of Lupus
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ducing to the medical world the possibilities of treating successfully diseases of the integument by light. It very possibly had not occurred to him how great a field he was opening up when first he directed his attention to concentrating the radiant energy of the sun upon the skin for the purpose of destroying in situ the germs of disease; but undoubtedly he was the pioneer of all that is now included in the term Photo-therapy.1 In the first place he had noticed some deleterious results of the chemical rays of light?those situated at the violet end of the spectrum, and including the green, blue, violet, and especially the ultra-violet rays?upon the skin of man and of lower animals.
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