SUN’S RAYS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 August 1924, Page 3

SUN’S RAYS.

A CURATIVE POWER. Among recent visitors to London has been Dr. Augustus Rollier, whose sun cures at Ley,sin in Switzerland have attracted so much attention. He lauded the power of the sun at an International Health Conference at Wembley, where he exhibited many lantern slides showing cases before and after his treatment, which furnished the most striking proof of hi.s statements. Patients afflicted with every form of tuberculosis —some terrible—were shown; later pictures illustrated the completeness of the cure. The sun (said Dr. Rollier) was the finest disinfectant known; in addition, it was o wonderful instrument of moral regeneration, which fact could he observed from the change in the patients expression. Whatever the cause of this moral renaissance might be, it was incontestable. It was to he hoped that more institutions for the applications of light and air to tuberculosis would be set up. Once the cure was effected, however, the struggle against relapse must not be neglected : and here again light and air were the two essential factors. If it were possible to settle those who were cured, with their families, in places where light and air were to be obtained, it was possible that they might have the paradox of the ex-tubeiTiilysis producing a stronger and better race. From the evidence before them it might be concluded that heliotherapy was the highest expression of preventive medicine.