Word: sunlamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symptoms: "Pain in the shoulder region, usually going down the upper arm as far as the elbow, and frequently . . . pain or tingling or both in the palm and fingers." Treatment: sunlamp irradiation, anesthetic massage...
...which had duly been filed under the name of Charles Erwin Wilson, then executive vice president of General Motors.* Charlie Wilson was known to almost no one except G.E. men. In his presidential office on the 45th floor of Manhattan's G.E. building, he had a sunlamp which he turned on whenever he felt a sneeze coming on; a framed copy of Edgar A. Guest's It Couldn't Be Done ("and he did it"); a television set. He took a plaster bust of Lincoln with him to his Washington office...
...healthy infants from rickets over this last winter. The injections are far cheaper than cod-liver oil, which is somewhat scarce at present.* For best results, he finds that the first injection should be given when a baby is a month old, and that no sunlamp or other vitamin treatment is necessary...
...still lots farther to Alexandria and Suez; that the Germans had not had time to adjust themselves to desert dysentery, sand blindness, and the strange desert infection which keeps even scratches open. But from Vichy they heard that the Germans had spent weeks baking themselves in huge, sand-floored, sunlamp-lit ovens at temperatures well over 100°, to fit themselves for desert fighting...
...climate machine which brings all but the view of any resort from Miami Beach to Sun Valley right into the home. Duplicated are proportions of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the air, humidity, smells and (via sunlamp) its special brand of sunshine...