"Their Majesties and the Light Cure: King Edward and Queen Alexandra Visiting Patients in the Finsen Light Room at the London Hospital."

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Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The Bert Hansen collection of medicine and public health in popular graphic art (Ms Coll 67) > Series I: Early Publications > Miscellaneous Publications > "Their Majesties and the Light Cure: King Edward and Queen Alexandra Visiting Patients in the Finsen Light Room at the London Hospital."


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Description

Title
"Their Majesties and the Light Cure: King Edward and Queen Alexandra Visiting Patients in the Finsen Light Room at the London Hospital."
Creator
From the Collection: Hansen, Bert, 1944-
Contributor
From the Collection: Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896
From the Collection: Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
From the Collection: Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894
From the Collection: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
From the Collection: Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937
From the Collection: Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931
From the Collection: Wales, James Albert, 1852-1886
From the Collection: Zimmerman, Eugene, 1862-1935
Published / Created
1903 June 20
Description
Illustrated London News, center, page 950-951. Drawn by A. Forestier, caption notes the royals visited on June 11 to open a new wing and a new Finsen Light Room. "Of the Danish physician's method of curing lupus, the Queen is the patron and pioneer in England. Her majesty presented the first lamp to the London Hospital in 1900." Two aspects of interest are Finsen Light's popularity at the time and a further transformation of the long tradition of the royal touch. Here it's their patronage of science and their funding that does the healing, but it's still their touch. Is this a change from or a continuity with royalty's appearances at cholera hospitals, where there was little therapy, beyond calming down a frightened public by gestures like these? Also see Image #1939. Hansen database #147.
Provenance
Gift of Bert Hansen in multiple accessions between 2015 and 2017.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Item Location

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Ms Coll 67
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Container / Volume
Box 13, folder 12

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Citation
Bert Hansen Collection of Medicine and Public Health in Popular Graphic Art. Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
14740826
Object ID (OID)
32332134

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