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long stretches at a time. With the cure goes a rational diet, 

 mainly of fruit and milk; very little meat is eaten, and it is 

 never taken more than once a day. 



The sun-baths are enjoyed for so many hours a day, and then 

 the patients rest. In summer, when the sun is very hot, the 

 sun-baths are taken first thing in the morning, to avoid the 

 dangers arising from too-powerful rays. The body gets browner 

 and browner day by day, and the muscles, instead of wasting 

 owing to lack of use, actually develop under the healing rays of 

 the sun. After a few months some of the children are so well 

 developed that they look as though they have been taking a 

 course of physical exercise instead of lying in bed for week 

 after week. 



Twenty-six years ago Dr Rollier built his first solarium, 

 or sun-bath, on the roof of an old chalet in Leysin. Now 

 great palaces, designed on the most scientific lines, are 

 dotted about the mountain-side. The rooms have double 

 doors, there are polished floors, hygienic and germ-free, 

 theatres, cinemas, and restaurants — the latter conducted 

 by men who know how to provide a healthy diet that will 

 satisfy the enormous appetites created by the sun. 



Two sections of this remarkable hospital are maintained 

 by the Swiss Government for the treatment of its soldiers. 

 Other sections are for the use of poor persons. 



All the patients breathe pure air, free from smoke, are 

 given fresh food, and enjoy the benefits of living at a high 

 altitude. But without the sun all these things would not 

 be sufficient to cure them. If ever there was a place in 

 the sun, it is Leysin, for the sun shines there summer and 

 winter. Often in December, when the snow is a couple of 

 feet thick on the ground, the sun temperature touches 105 

 degrees. To that fact visitors owe the queer sight of 

 youngsters playing in the snow, and at the same time 

 wearing sun-helmets to protect themselves from sunstroke. 



No doctor in the world has achieved a more wonderful 

 work than Rollier, who laboured for years in a corner of a 



