Letters from Niels R. Finsen 1904

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Letters from Niels R. Finsen 1904

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Letters from Niels R. Finsen, the 1903 Nobel Prize awardee for Medicine or Physiology. Envelope addressed to Hr. Docent Dr. phil.Schmidt-Nielsen, Lysintituts Laboratorium, Rosenvaenget, [Köbenhaven]. Typescript transcription of the Danish text and English translation.

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Schmidt-Nielsen, Sigval

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Finsen, Niels R. (Niels Ryberg), 1860-1904

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Born in the Faroe Islands, Neils Finsen studied medicine at University of Copenhagen, graduating in 1890. In the course of studying Pick's disease, which afflicted him, Finsen became interested in the effects of sunlight and certain rays within sunlight and their effect on people. Though he found no solution to his own situation, he discovered that the absence of such rays greatly reduced scarring from small-pox and that application of such rays provided effective treatment to sufferers of lupus...