Finsen Phototherapy (1896)

Record 022 · Light · 1896

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Finsen Phototherapy

Niels Ryberg Finsen

“Finsen's concentrated-light treatment for lupus vulgaris — phototherapy as medicine.”

The 1903 Nobel for light treatment of skin tuberculosis made 'a light protocol' a hospital noun decades before LEDs.

Opened phototherapy as clinical practice.

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  • Concentrated UV/visible light
  • Dermatologic light sessions
  • Hospital phototherapy

Light as a Nobel method.