SUNDAY’S PHASES

Northern Advocate, 18 December 1928, Page 5

SUNDAY’S PHASES

RAY-THERAPY TREATMENT.

A WELL-REPUTED ADJUNCT

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 3.53 p.m.)

LONDON, December 16. It is authoritatively stated tonight that if the King is able to maintain, and perhaps increase, the slight improvement that has taken place, anxiety will in some measure be allayed. Lord Dawson, and Sir Hugh Rigby left at 8.30, Sir Stanley Hewett staying .on.

■ His Majesty slept for some Ifime in T the "■ !

; The Queen was able to leave the Palace. She lunched with the Duke and Duchess of York at their Piccadilly, residence land therepfiter went for a short drive. Her Majesty, was welebmed by crowds on' her return to tfae Palace.

Ike Prince of Wales; was at, the Palace in the morning. He returned in the evening and'left after he had hoard the latest report.

Tho use of the ultra-violet ray .on the King is the greatest single piece of recognition yet given to electrotherapy. The growth of light healing, is one of * the, outstanding developments of medical science! in which .Britishers are in the forefront.

The firest ultra-violet ray apparatus in the world is possessed by the Light Clinic, which forthwith offered it to the King’s physicians, as soon as it was realised that the system was being called into aid.

The light apparatus is easily portable. It is placed en stands beside the bed and connected with the Ordinary light circuit. , Both the King’s doctors wear dark glasses, as the effect of the rays on the naked eye is injurious.

The treatment usually begins with one short application a day, the chest or back being exposed for only half a minute. The following exposure may be for a minute and the (third

for two minutes, or alternatively two

applications a day, each <of one min- ' into. It is necessary to allow the patient to become gradually accustomed to the treatment, as longer than half a minute at the beginning would produce the equivalent of a severe sunburn. The treatment usual-

ly ; soothes ithe patient to a feeling of well-being. Many frequently ask *■ for longer applications, because it induces a sensation of returning strength.

It is this effect of giving greater power of resistance which the doctors hope to create. The value of the treatment for empyema has been proved tenfold. Evidently the doctors resorted to it as the result of added knowledge by the operation.

Special daily services, commencing today, are being 'held in Westminster Cathedral. The Blessed Sacrament is solemnly exposed from noon' to 1 o ’dock daily.

A famous specialist informed the “Daily Express” that only experts can administer the ray, Exceptional--3y good resiilts are achieved in combating the effect of infection, as well as reviving the general strength of patients. The ray acts on the blood through the skin and stimulates the blood’s resistance qualities. It has the recuperative effect of strong sunlight and raises the whole tone of the system.