Phototherapy : (1) the chemical rays of light and small-pox--(2) light as a stimulant--(3) the treatment of lupus vulgaris by concentrated chemical rays / by Niels R. Finsen ; translated from the German edition, and with an appendix on the light treatment of lupus ; by James H. Sequeira.

Date:
1901
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Credit: Phototherapy : (1) the chemical rays of light and small-pox--(2) light as a stimulant--(3) the treatment of lupus vulgaris by concentrated chemical rays / by Niels R. Finsen ; translated from the German edition, and with an appendix on the light treatment of lupus ; by James H. Sequeira. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    where thick red curtains or windows with very dark glass are necessary. 11 e hioiv, moreover, that durin<j the day the surveillance of the patients under the treat- ment was not very exact, and the sunliyht had very little dificidty in yetting into the isolation roomsd The objections which M. Juhel-Kenoy has raised to this method are easily refuted by Dr. Peronnet. M. Juhel-Renoy had not experimented with sufficient care : it is enough to remark that in one case, for example, the patient was not exposed to the red light until after the commencement of suppuration and secondary fever. Dr. AbeP (Bergen, Norway), cites twenty-three cases of small-pox, treated since 1893 in red light at the Small-pox Hospital at Bergen. Of these twenty-three cases eight were very severe. All the patients recovered; suppuration did not occur at all, except in one case which was suppurating when admitted to the hospital on the tenth day of disease. Dr. Abel makes the following remarks upon this patient : ‘ Even in the patient admitted with full suppuration the favourable effect of the treatment was immediately visible. From the next day the fever diminished and the irritation of the pustules lessened. As on admission to the hospital the papules had suppurated, I had no opportunity of noticing the point observed in all the others, viz., an arrest in the progress of invasion of the pustules, and the localization of the suppurating process to the 1 The italics are mine. 2 Abel, ‘ Om Dr. Finsen’s behanclling af variola mod udelukkelsc af D’sets Kemiske Straaler ’ {Medicinsk. Bevuc, August, 1897): ‘On the Finsen treatment of variola by exclusion of the chemical rays of light.’