THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK
ten minutes. Then Finsen, the Dane, pro-
duced these rays artificially at Copenhagen
by means of the carbon arc.
In 1907, Dr. Rollier started his Sunlight
Clinic on a Swiss mountain, 4,000 feet above
sea level. He has now more than 1,000
patients. He has been healing defective
white people for over 20 years. His success
is known all over the world. The Swiss call
him the “Sun God.” He is the ablest
pioneer of Sunlight treatment, which will
eventually become universal. Under his treat-
ment, the whole body is exposed to the sun
for three hours a day.
In 1924, the Sunlight League was organized
in London, under the patronage of the late
Queen Alexandra. Its first ar was
Dr. C. W. Saleeby. Strangely enough, it
was Queen Alexandra who opened the way
for Courtaulds by putting mourning out of
fashion, and it was she who helped the new
“* Sunlight Treatment ’’ to become established.
In Germany, there is a nation-wide move-
ment, mainly among young people, to give
sunlight and air to the body. It has been
scoffed at by prudes, as it is in a sense a revolt
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