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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Queen Alexandra statue
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Anna Freud
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Dr Mark Jonathan David Damien Lister Patterson
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John Alcindor
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Sir Astley Paston Cooper
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Order of St John of Jerusalem
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