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Light therapy has always been considered a healing force, and because they felt that light was the source of life, some Egyptian cults worshipped the sun and the healing ability of light. This modality was rediscovered by JH Kellogg in his "Light Therapeutics" (1910): "To be able to harness this force, to control it, and to focus it upon any desired organ or function of the body, is one of the newest and greatest triumphs of modern therapeutics.”

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the Horizontal Electric-Light Bath
from A System of Instruction in XRay Methods and Medical Uses of Light, Hot-Air, Vibration and High-Frequency Currents (1902) by S.H. Monell, MD
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Light Therapeutics (1910) by J.H. Kellogg
a demonstration of arc light therapy to the spine
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SunArc bath treatment of an infant
Healers did not hesitate to use these untested devices on patients of all ages.
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early twentieth century light therapy
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early twentieth century Dinshah Spectro-Chrome Metry devices by the Spectro-Chrome Institute, Malaga, New Jersey
Colonel Dinshah Ghadiali was a “metaphysician,” and President of the Spectro-Chrome Institute. According to his theories, most diseases could be treated by shining lights of differing colors and intensity on the ill and disabled. The foundation of Dinshah’s therapy rested on the assumption that colors projected on the skin can be effective in treating various diseases, both internal and external, by altering the abnormal physiology that those diseases cause.
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unmarked light healing helmet
This French healing helmet employed different light sources for the treatment of various conditions.
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early twentieth century violet ray cased sets
Numerous annealed glass tubes constructed under low vacuum glowed with different colors, depending on the gas within. They were designed to spark when touched and came in different shapes to treat different parts of the body for the therapy of almost any condition. (left to right) Energex by Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Renulife, model R, Renulife Electric Co., Detroit, Michigan, LifeLite, model A, Ultra-Violet Home Products, Inc., Los Angeles, California
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Violet Ray by Aloe and Co.
This is a very rare complete violet ray device by Aloe.
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early twentieth century violet ray attachments
(top): two ozone generators, ophthalmic attachment, body roller, ozone-cocaine wound electrode, insulated rectal electrode, penile applicator, insulated vaginal applicator; (bottom): radium electrode, body coil, head and hair brush, breast attachment
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ultraviolet ray treatment using the LifeLite ultraviolet light (ca. 1930)
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demonstration of the bifurcated eye vacuum tube
from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) by S.H. Monell, MD
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demonstration of the Shelton ozone generator with bulb attachment (ca. 1930)
Ozone was a byproduct of the discharge from these vacuum tubes, and was inhaled for its supposed health benefits.
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treatment of the chest with the violet ray
from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) by S.H. Monell, MD
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violet ray treatment of the breast
from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) by S.H. Monell, MD
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the Brain Wave Synchronizer
Not long after the discovery of the electroencephalogram and its demonstration of the presence of brain waves, an entrepreneur produced this device to treat irregularities.
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