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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929.

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There has been In the last days some heart-searching in Harley- street since the Medical Research Council fasued its report contain- ing very roundly-expressed doubts on artificial sunlight. The report seems to suggest that the value of artificial sunlight treatment has been exaggerated. It speaks of it as a therapeutic treatment which "has Intely come widely into use in this country with a rapidity not hitherto common even for tho beat attested therapeutic novel- ties." It admits that light does cause an increase in the power of the blood corpuscles, as tested in shed blood, to dispose of bacteria: but "there is no present reason to know that artifelat light can do more in this way than a mustard plaster which Is infinitely cheaper."

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"Prolonged research," says the report, “gives no scientific reason at all to suppose that the treat- ment of rickets or the supply of Vitamin D to the body is better effected by ultra-violet rays fall- ing on the skin than by the direct provision of necessary food values. The general evidence from the vigour of human life enjoying natural food supplies in. the most northern latitudes points in the same direction."

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Sunlight and Tuberculosis,

A press representative consult- ed a specialist in ray treatment. "The Medical Research Council,” said this authority, "are a body of learned men whose opinions must be treated with every respect; but In this instance they appear to have made generalisations which give a wrong impression.

"It is important to differentiate between two uses of artificial sun- light. On the one hand there is its curative use; that is to say, its use in combating tuberculosis and in assisting convalescence from such lls, way, as pneumonia. But, in addition, other claims are being made for it. Ray treatment is advocated, as the report says, "not only for allments of many kinds and as an aid to convales- eance, but even for the preserva- tion of a feeling of well-being.'

"To take the first point. The value of artificial aunlight in treating tuberculosis Is uni- versally admitted. In treating same kinds of tuberculosis wei have found that artificial sunlight in, beyond dispute, just ns effec- Live as real sunlight, Similarly, nobody can deny that, 'as un ald to: convalescence, it has proved its) value. The Medien Research Council says it commonly costs 38. or 48. to give by light an effective supply of Vitaman D that would cost less than 1d, if given by the mouth in the form of cod-liver oil or otherwise,' But what about! the numerous cases when it fu im- possible to feed up". The' patient? The easer when the stomach re- fuses to tako nourishment? It is one of the great assets of the treatment that by its means patient can absorb vitamins through his skin in that period of convalescence when the stomach is too weak.

Experiments on Schoul Children, "But when we come to the wider se we are in difficult coun- try. The Council makes un ad-

verse report on An experiment

which has been made on school- children in Willesden. There were two batches of schoolchildren!' one batch was given artificial sub- light, the other was not. The results, says the Council, show 'no gain in weight „height, or observed, muntality and spirits and the in- cidence of minor ailments, such as 'colds, was actually higher among those receiving the light.'! About this I would say, first, that you cannot generalise on one ex- periment; next, I would any, that from this experiment you

could not except any other result.

"Here were children in a com. paratively healthy and open quar- ter of London. Presumably they were healthy to begin with and the bactericidal power of their blood was high. It was not lo be; expected that any great difference would be observed. It is one thing to treat a patient whose rent, diet, exercise-whose whole life—is controlled; it is quite an- other thing to any whether und in. what way artificial sunlight can' bo effectively made use of in our: ordinary life. This branch of medical science has 'nut nearly reached so advanced a stage of development.

"As to the, mustard plaster even the value of that has not been proved. It has been proved that a mustard plaster on " inboratory animul causes a change in the blood, but it has not been proved that it is equally effective on the human being. In any case, it involves a mustard plaster covering one-sixth of the area of the body for two hours at a stretch! The treatment may.. bej cheap, but it is drastic

"We regret as much as anyone that artificial sunlight his been exploited commercially in such a manner that outrageous claims are being made for it. It is the youngest branch of, medical selence and we have a great deal yet to find out. But its value has been proved.

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