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Figure 2.8, 'The Light Department, London Hospital, showing patients being treated with Finsen lamps for lupus.' - Soaking Up the Rays - NCBI Bookshelf
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An old cigarette card (c. 1929) with a portrait of Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860–1904) and an illustration of his lamp. Finsen was a Danish-Faroese physician and scientist. In 1903, he was awarded
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