The Helpful Web

Doctors throughout history have expressed profound beliefs in the healing power of the sun's rays, often referring to them in powerful and sometimes poetic terms. Here are some notable quotes from physicians about the sun's healing properties: • In 1889, a Cannes physician, Dr. J. Orgeas , eloquently stated: “Just as the sun is the principal of all life, so it is the source of all healing. It is the Sun, and uniquely the Sun, that sick people seek in winter on our coast. It is the Great Doctor, Doctor of the Faculty of the Sky, to whom the suffering come to demand a cure for their ills.” • John Harvey Kellogg, in his 1897 book Hygiène populaire et moniteur de la santé , asserted that the sun is “the most powerful of all natural antiseptics; no morbid germ can resist the direct rays of the sun, cholera, consumption [tuberculosis], diphtheria, scarlet fever and typhoid fever, and other diseases.” He further described the sun's "magic influence" in his 1910 Light T...