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In 1892, Niels Finsen of Denmark received the Nobel Prize for being the first person to successfully treat skin tuberculosis with ultra-violet light (Liberman, 1991). War wounds, in the early 1900’s, were found to heal faster and have less chance of infection if left exposed to the open air and sunlight. Without antibiotics, the bandaged wounds provided the perfect environment for the growth of bacteria and therefore increased the incidence of sepsis. Dr. Oskar Bernhard (1926), a surgeon-in-chief at the Oberengadin District Hospital during the early 1900’s, began to use sunlight to heal wounds and tuberculosis. He earned a reputation for saving severely injured limbs that would otherwise have been amputated. Bernhard later worked at the prisoner of war camps in Germany, England and northern France as a Swiss Military Surgeon during World War I, and used surgery together with sun therapy to treat wounded soldiers. Dr. August Rollier (1927), another prominent surgeon of the early 1900’s, became disillusioned with the form of treatment of tuberculosis used at the time. Surgery was used to cut out the affected parts of the body and this rarely resulted in any form of cure. After Rollier’s fiancé contracted tuberculosis and a close friend committed suicide as a result of unsuccessful surgery, he started to look for alternate forms of treatment for the disease. Eventually he found that Heliotherapy (sunlight therapy) to be a successful treatment not only for Tuberculosis as well as a number of other ailments as well. Figure 1: Patients at Dr. Rollier’s clinic, ‘Le Chalet’ (Hobday, 1999) 5PDF Image | THE USE OF LIGHT AND COLOUR AS A HEALING MODALITY
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