REMARKABLE ATTACK ON RAY TREATMENT
SCORN POURED ON POPULAR BELIEF IN TONIC QUALITIES
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Received 12.55 p.m. LONDON, Thursday.
A remarkable attack on artificiallight treatment is made in the annual report of the Medical Research Council. It pours scorn on the widespread and popular belief in the tonic effect of artificial ultra-violet light treatment and challenges its advocates in the medical profession to prove their claims. “The use of artificial light is merely wasteful. It costs from 3s to 4s, whereas the same result for less than a penny is obtainable from cod liver oil.” The council also questions the value of treatment producing a reaction in the skin. “There is no reason to think one can do more in this way than with a mustard piaster, which is infinitely cheaper.” It. is admitted that some part of the treatment, has a scientific basis, but the opinion is expressed that great sums of private and public moneys expended in treatment have been wasted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 613, 15 March 1929, Page 9
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167REMARKABLE ATTACK ON RAY TREATMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 613, 15 March 1929, Page 9
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