Science And Mechanics
Issue: Nov, 1931
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Posted: 05/24/2006
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VIOLET-RAY LAMP PROBES NOSE TO CURE HAY FEVER (Nov, 1931)

Yes, cure Hay Fever with a sun-burnt nostril. Sounds like it should work to me…

VIOLET-RAY LAMP PROBES NOSE TO CURE HAY FEVER
SUNBURNED backs, as all know, may now be had from a “health lamp”; but here we have a mercury-vapor lamp in a quartz rod, small enough to pass up the nose and sunburn its inside. Four out of five cases of “hay fever” are cured.

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1 comment
  1. help says: May 6, 20097:33 am

    does anyone no if it actualy works or if it is true

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