SUNLIGHT CURES.
+ A group of Austrian doctors, who have been investigating the disease known as rickets, have made discoveries which point to the fact that tho ultra-violet rays of the sunlight may have a definite curative effect on the body. They found, in the first place, says "Everyday Science," that tho disease was prevented from developing if to the children's diet cod-liver oil was added, and more milk and less sugar. In the second place, they found that the disease, when developed, could be cured by cod-liver oil, and by exposure either to the sunlight or to the radiation of mercury-vapour lamps. The curative effect of sunlight for rickets is no new discovery, but that mercury-vapour light should be equally beneficial is interesting, for this light is peculiarly rich in ultra-violet rays, whence it appears probable that : t is the ultra-violet rays that are the good part of the sunlight. In cities these ravs are filtered out of the sunlight by the smoke in the atmosphere, and so the city child is deprived of this remedy for rickets. The Austrian doctors also found that cod-liver oil on the one hand and light on the other appeared to have an identical effect on the diseased bones of the rickets' patients.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17607, 9 November 1922, Page 5
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