ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
TREATMENT OP DISEASE. j BENEFIT CLAIMS RIDICULED. (Australian Press Association.) ■(Received 2.30 p.im.) LONDON, March 14, A remarkable attack on artificial light treatment is’ made in the annual repoilt of the Medical Research Council, which pours scorn on the widespread popular belief in the tonic effect of artificial ultra-violet light treatment. It challenges advocates in the medical profession to prove their claims, adding: “To use artificial light to give what only right food can is merely wasteful. It costs three to four shillings, whereas the same result for less than a penny is obtainable from cod liver oil.’ 7
The council also questions the value of the treatment in producing reaction of the skin, stating: “There is no reason that we "know why it can do more in this way than a mustard piaster, which is infinitely cheaper. ’ ’ It is admitted that some part of the treatment is on a- scientific basis, but the report expresses the opinion that the great sums of private and public moneys expended on this treatment have been wasted.
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1929, Page 7
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