Apologies for the delay in posting this.
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:13:36 -0500
To: Museums of Health and Medicine Link <[log in to unmask]>
From: Arne Hessenbruch <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Finsen lamps
Does anyone know the whereabouts of a Finsen lamp? These were quite large
lamps filling up most of a room, in one version made to treat four people
at the same time. The lamp is named after the 1903 winner of the Nobel
Prize for Medicine/Physiology, Niels Finsen. It deployed UV light and was
most commonly used to treat lupus (skin TB). Arne Hessenbruch
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