Finsen-Reyn lamp, photographs.
Finsen-Reyn lamp, photographs.
Radiotherapy and phototherapy : including radium and high-frequency currents, their medical and surgical applications in diagnosis and treatment, for students and practitioners / Charles Warrenne Allen. New York : Lea, 1904. (pp.480-481) WN 100 A425r 1904 Osler – Robertson.
This image depicts two lamps for phototherapy treatments invented at the turn of the century by Dr. Finsen and Dr. Reyn, a colleague at his Institute in Copenhagen. It was designed for the private treatment of one patient at a time, as opposed to the early version of the Finsen lamp, which treated as many as four at once. It is described in a Feb. 14, 1903 article in <i>The Lancet</i>, whose authors note that "after a thorough, prolonged, and satisfactory trial, both in the laboratory and the institute, this lamp has now been issued with the guarantee and authority of the Institute" (p. 449).
