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H. MORROW SWEENEY, Ph.D.; HENRY LAURENS, Ph.D., LL.D.

Arch Surg. 1935;31(3):395-418.

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The remarkable advances made during the past decade demonstrating the rôle of ultraviolet energy in metabolism, the activation of inert substances and the relationship between ultraviolet rays and vitamin D have fired the enthusiasm of the public and furnished a fertile field for the researches of today and tomorrow. As in the case of many other scientific discoveries, however, commercialism and quackery, by incessantly instructing the laity that radiation, either by way of artificial sources or by the consumption of irradiated products, will cure all ills, have built up a false conception of its real value. To be unduly optimistic concerning the value of radiant energy in the treatment of disease, employing it to the exclusion of a hygienic-dietary régime, and to regard light as a therapia magna, are bound to bring discouragement.¹ Sunlight or artificial radiant energy will not cure, it is not a specific form of treatment, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
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From the Laboratory of Physiology, School of Medicine, Tulane University of Louisiana.

Footnotes
The data reported here were taken from the dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Tulane University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by H. Morrow Sweeney in June 1934.

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