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Tuberculosis.
Age-Periods.
New Cases.
DEATHS.
Pulmonary
Non-
Pulmonary.
Pulmonary.
Non-
Pulmonary.
M
F
M
F
M
F
M
F
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
1
0
8
1
6
1
1
4
4
1
1
23
1
3
5
11
1
-
2
5
1
1
7
5
14
9
1
3
10
6
1
7
7
4
-
15
12
13
3
6
9
5
-
-
20
19
22
30
2
8
17
-
-
1
3
25
27
-
45
15
1
2
28
12
35
23
3
3
-
45
4
3
-
20
1
8
5
1
-
55
18
3
-
2
-
3
2
-
-
65 and upwards
4
-
159
100
60
45
95
48
16
12
Totals
Sun Cure for Tuberculosis.
The Sun Cure for Tuberculosis is known under the medical term
of Heliotherapy. When the invisible rays known as the Ultra-violet
rays first became known by Finsen's experiments in Copenhagen
in 1890 they seemed to explain many curious phenomena which has
been discovered empirically (that is by experience only) concerning
the value of the sun's rays in the cure of diseases.
Scientific and systematic experiments in this direction were
begun in Switzerland by Dr. O. Bernhard in St. Moritz in 1902,
followed up by Dr. Rollier, of Leysin, in 1904, and may be said
now to have passed the experimental stage. It is true that an
English Doctor, Dr. Palm, drew attention to the value of sunlight
for rickety children about 1890, but no systematic work was
undertaken until Drs. O. Bernhard and Rollier took it up as
mentioned above.
As the X-Ray and Radium emanations have great powers of
penetration they have always been applied locally, frequently with
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