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Concept    From 1896 

Finsen light cure

Categories: Medicine

Countries: Denmark, Iceland / Faroe Islands

Finsen light cure

The Faroese/Icelandic physician, Niels Ryberg Finsen, (1860 - 1904) won a Nobel Prize for inventing this while working in Denmark. After a time it was found to be dangerous rather than healing.

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