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that children and adults can expose their bodies to the 

 beneficial rays. In any Northern country, also, there are 

 few modern hospitals where artificial sunlight lamps are 

 not employed as a valuable aid in the conquest of disease. 



It will be remembered that artificial sunlight was em- 

 ployed during the King's long illness in 1929, a treatment 

 which could not have been administered but for the work 

 of the picoieers who proved the value of sunlight in sick- 

 ness and health. 



Foremost among these pioneers is a Swiss doctor whose 

 name is still unknown to tens of thousands of those who 

 have benefited by his work. That work is carried out in 

 the Swiss mountain village of Leysin, far away from 

 great cities, by Dr Rollier, who although he has never 

 sought fame will certainly be remembered as the man 

 who demonstrated the wonderful healing powers of the 

 sun. For nearly thirty years he has tended his patients 

 in a hospital where surgeons and medicine are unknown. 

 These patients come to him with hunched backs, tuber- 

 culous limbs, and twisted bodies. He calls in the aid of 

 the sun, the fresh air, and good food. That is all And 

 presently the patients go away, their bodies miraculously 

 made beautiful and a new light of health in their eyes. 



More wonderful still is the sunlight school at Leysin, a 

 school in which Dr Rollier's younger patients learn their 

 lessons sitting on the snow slopes, clad only in a pair of 

 drawers, while Dr Sunshine cures their bodies and makes 

 them the strong, healthy children they were meant to be. 



We are not sure that Dr Rollier ought not to have 

 been given a place in one of our previous volumes devoted 

 to modern adventurers, for in our generation there have 

 been few adventures greater than that on which he em- 

 barked when in 1903 he began to use the sun-cure for the 

 treatment of surgical tuberculosis. 



In 1903 those suffering from this terrible form of 

 disease turned for cure to the surgeon rather than to the 



