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Dr. Woloshyn, describes a similar use of the environment by another Swiss pioneer, Dr. Auguste Rollier. The exhibition describes the sanatoriums that Dr. Rollier created in the 20th century, taking advantage of the Swiss mountains for “tuberculous adults and children”. (Woloshyn 2011) Used anatomical charts of the human body along with precise exposure time models for each area. His methodical approach to heliotherapy was interesting because many images in the exhibition show "Happy, free and liberated, these "patients"... [who undertook] Games, sports and heliotherapy... as complementary exercises." (Woloshyn 2011) This became part of the adaptation of new patients to the sanatorium, and was one of the steps used in the early stages of treatment. Dr. Woloshyn also mentions Neils Ryberg Finsen who also experimented with natural light outdoors. However, he began experimenting with artificial light in treating diseases such as Lupus. Woloshyn goes on to say that his research was used in the state-funded Medical Light Institute, which later became the Finsen Institute in Denmark. For his work in phototherapy he won a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1903. (Woloshyn, 2011) The recognition given to work with light-based therapies by the Nobel Prize committee was partly responsible for the global rise of heliotherapy. By this time heliotherapy had a large enough audience to warrant interest in New York State newspapers. A physician, Dr. Grasso, in an article in the New York State Journal of Medicine in 1992 described the advent of heliotherapy in the state in the 1920s. He cites the work of Dr. Rollier who “introduced it [heliotherapy] on a large scale and on a solid scientific basis.” (Fat 19...... middle of paper ...... owell 1952) In short, the policy allowed authorities to quarantine infected patients and thus isolate them from the community. There were several facilities listed in the document, including: The Montefiore Country Sanatorium in Bedford Hills, Gabriel's located in the Adirondacks. Inside the Monterfiore Home in New York, departments of St Luke's Hospital and Lincoln Hospital and headquarters of the city of New York. (Godias and Lowell 1952) They go on to mention several other facilities in Coney Island and New Jersey that would help increase the capacity to treat the sick. (Godias and Lowell 1952) The number of facilities suggests that the city needed to take measures to contain the epidemic as soon as possible, but there were still challenges compromising their efforts. These facilities were different from the sanatoriums previously described. The study noted that such