While flagellation beds are now the domain ofirresponsible parentsandyoung white women looking for some skin cancer , their UV rays were originally designed as a ( quasi ) legitimate medical treatment . Get your dose of vitamin D with thisOobject - assembled collection of illuminating medical gadget .
Be sure to also retard out theselight tube , pocket sundials , andsolar cooker .
Quain sunlight bath
A beautifully design deco lamp which consists of an electric warmer with carbon arc ultraviolet light
1919 electric light bath introduced by Dr. Kellog of Corn Flake fame
Kellog was main medic at a sanitorium where he introduced a flaky range of treatment .
Lamp designed to brand new born babies with sunburn
Early tanning lamp ad
The horizontal electric light bath cabinet
If someone were to design a steampunk tanning bed they could do far worse than copy this .
Finsen light therapy system
Although this appliance from just before the first earth war look like quackery it was a pioneering use of medical therapy in the intervention of many skin disease .
1960s Sun Bonnet Sun Reflector Tanning
Cook your face in the same mode as a fold vegetable long-neck clam .
1935 German device for ear problems that relied on the supposed benefits of red and blue light
DIY sun bathing pod from 1970
Not sure why everyone is fully clothed here .
Congressmen take light shower baths in the Turkish baths of the House of Representatives
WWII submariners receiving sun lamp treatment before boarding a submarine
A aesculapian precaution before entering a sunlight free man for long period of time .
Sit-in enclosed light bath, 1890-1920
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