L’Usage Chez Soi des Bains d’Air, de Lumière et de Soleil, cover.
L’Usage Chez Soi des Bains d’Air, de Lumière et de Soleil, cover.
L'Usage Chez Soi des Bains d'Air, de Lumière et de Soleil; leur valeur pratique dans le traitement des maladies chroniques et dans l'hygiène journalière / Albert Monteuuis. Nice : Librairie Visconti; Paris : A. Maloine; Bruxelles : Librairie Henri Lamertin, 1911. (Front cover) Private collection.
Monteuuis's hope was to popularise heliotherapy for the benefit of all citizens suffering from chronic illness. His goal is clear in the title of this 1911 publication, "L'Usage Chez Soi des Bains d'Air, de Lumière et de Soleil". This emphasis of this work is on at-home treatment and daily hygiene for the chronically ill. One could take a bain de soleil, Monteuuis said, in the bedroom, in a hotel room, or in the garden. This 1911 title implies that patients could take individual responsibility for their own cure, but only if armed with the right medical knowledge.
Private collection.
