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little country before even his own profession heard of him. 

 In 1913 he came to a great International Medical Con- 

 ference in London, and read a paper on his work, showing 

 lantern slides. There were only twenty doctors present 

 to listen to him, and he does not think that any of them 

 were English. This country was still in the Dark Ages — 

 we were still neglecting the sunlight that was free to all, 

 and few stopped to listen to the man who was making 

 diseased bodies whole with the aid of the sun's rays. 



In 1921 another International Congress, held in London, 

 discussed tuberculosis. There was nothing on its pro- 

 gramme connected with heliotherapy, or curing by the 

 sun. But the medical profession was awakening never- 

 theless to the power of this greatest of all healers. 



The cures worked by the sun at Leysin are now having 

 a profound influence upon medical treatment throughout 

 the world. Centres are being opened in England where 

 the methods of Dr Rollier are being practised by those 

 who have been to Leysin and studied his work. Perhaps 

 the nearest approach to the hospital at Leysin is to be 

 found in those Homes for Crippled Children founded by 

 Sir William Treloar at Alton and Hayling Island. For 

 we know that while high altitudes are best for the treat- 

 ment of many diseases, it is not necessary to go to a 

 height of 5000 feet in order to use the curative powers of 

 the sun. It will help to conquer disease anywhere in this 

 country where the curse of smoke can be eliminated, so 

 that the ultra-violet rays can reach the invalid. 



