QUICK SUNBURN.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 306, 26 December 1924, Page 6

QUICK SUNBURN.

SEASIDE COMPLEXION IN FOCT HOURS. Artificial sunrav treatment was one of the ntanv novelties shown to doctor! !at the British .Medical Exhibition " recently. It was shown how patients wr." needed the valued rays of the sun may 1 become sunburnt men in the dulle" - weather. * Tbe apparatus for producing the sunray is a hemispherical aluminium r f ' flector and a silica mercury vapour lamp, and it is so adjusted that, when the art . of light is directed upon the patient, J characteristic sunburn appears in four to six hours. This, of course, is produced by tM '■ rays penetrating the tissues, and it IS claimed that it is as efficient in man? i respects as sunlight, and that exact doses of sunlight can be measured out. Harrogate is one of the spas which la! taken up the new idea. There were tabloids for all the diseases which can be cured, and the latest in tabloid form is insulin. Another welcome preparation fsa.V! the London "Daily Chronicle"! is a substitute for morphine. Whereas morphine taking may become a "habit," it is claimed for the substitute that it 1* incapable of inducing a tendency to i constant use.