ULTRA VIOLET RAYS
INDISCRIMINATE USE DEPRECATED. NOT A GENERAL SPECIFIC. London. Sept. 3. The public’s indiscriminate use of ultra violet rays must be deprecated, says Sir George Newman, in the Ministry of Health’s report. The best results are obtained in healing lupus certain skin conditions, rickets, super! ficial lesions and surgical tuberculosis. The results are unfavourable in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis but early employment is successful in cases of tuberculosis and laryngitis. The report says the general con elusions are the ultra violet rays are not a general specific for all diseases, but are useful as a therapeutic accessory, bets used in combination with well-tried methods, and should only be carried out in properly staffed hospitals and clinics, and only given in cases of definite disease.
The report continues: “The defect is that wo know too little about the immediate and remote effects. Wo accept the opinion that everybody will benefit from exposure to violet rays. Already wo have some people, especially children, so constituted as to be unfitted for this treatment and who suffer from it.”—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 5 September 1927, Page 8
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