Finsen Method of Treatment, photograph.
Finsen Method of Treatment, photograph.
Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics: with chapters on radium and phototherapy / by Mihran Krikor Kassabian. Philadelphia ; London: J. B. Lippincott, 1907. WN K19r 1907 Osler - Robertson.
This photograph depicts a patient receiving treatment via an arc light, according to Finsen's technique of targeted phototherapy. "Finsen's method consists in concentrating actinic light, through rock-crystal lenses, on any desired part, rendered as exsanguine as possible by means of pressure, because the presence of blood acts as a barrier to the passage of the chemical rays to the tissues." (Kassabian, 515)
