SYNTHETIC SUNLIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 152, 28 June 1924, Page 7

SYNTHETIC SUNLIGHT.

DR. ROLLIER ENTERTAINED. BY CRIPPLED CHILDREN". (From Our Own Correspondent.! LONDON, May 21. There was a time when one fondly imagined a sun cure meant what it appears to be, and that such a cure indicated life in a sunny land. But sunshine like New Zealand's has its rival — not exactly a synthetic sun. but at least an artificial one. The sun treatment is a standby at the Heritage Craft School for crippled children to which some of New Zealand's relief funds have been given, and it is here that the sun specialist, Dr. Murray Levick, works by means of light not directly from a solar source. Dr. bevick is hopeful of having found a cure for what is at present regarded as an incurable disease—acute anaemia. "Premature announcements may do more harm than good, and for the present I do not want any claim put forward," he said. "All [ know is that we have been treating a case here experimentally with artificial sunlight during the winter, and recovery is practically complete." This week the 200 boy and girl cripples at this charming country home honoured and entertained Dr. A.Rollier, the sun-cure pioneer, of Levsin. Switzerland, to whoso discoveries they owe their wonderful progress towards recovery from that most terrible of scourges, tuberculosis. And they honoured him in their own way, presenting the Swiss doctor with a birds' nes\, among uther things, and Mme. Rollier with a sunshade. A sunshade for the wife of the sun-cure pioneer of the world! Only Chailey children could have thought of that. On the open verandah, where the*weave wool mats all day and lie in the heat, these little sun-worshippers greeted their champion with flageolets, I tinkling triangles, and a. big drum — treated him, in fact, to a bout of jazz. But they are most proud of their carpenters' shop and basket-niak'nii.' and sign-writing rooms, where there was ;« cheery text written by an armless boy with his too?, and some imp letter work hy a boy who has been able to adopt sign-writing as a profession.