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Prevention lies with maintaining sound health, cure with nourishing foods, plentiful clean air, abundant sunshine. (Ultraviolet light, from quartz lamps has proven efficacious substitute for sunlight...
Stepp of Jena commended U. S. Experimenters Hess and Steenbock for their experiments in stimulating the production of vitamins in vegetable oils by means of the ultraviolet rays (artificial sunshine) of mercury lamps. . . . Too much vitamin-potent food might injure patients...
Calcium. Dr. Weston A. Price of Cleveland reported data furthering scientific knowledge of the effect of the ultraviolet ray in aiding calcium assimilation (bone growth). This knowledge, already applied to the treatment of rickets, definitely relates influenza epidemics with city smoke-palls; definitely benefits gravid women, who, according to the old rule, sacrificed "a tooth for every child...
Smithsonian Program. Study of the ultraviolet rays in sunlight; of the sea's water, waves, currents, tides and the sea's relationships to men, animals and plants; of the 600,000 odd kinds of insect that compete with man for existence on the earth; expansion of plant studies in South America (for drugs, gums, oils, spices, fibres, fruits and dyes)?that, broadly speaking, would be the program of the Smithsonian Institution this year?Austin H. Clark, Washington...
Formaldehyde. "I have made sugar, pounds of it, synthetically from formaldehyde, the common disinfectant, through the action of ultraviolet rays."?Prof. E. C. C. Baly, Liverpool University...