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The U niversity Institute of Theoretical Physics.

of the Serum -institute, the diagnostic, which has the ob­ ject to help the physicians to the early understanding of the nature of the infec­ tious desease by retu rn exa­ m ination of the test-tubes w ith samples of blood or. other m aterial, in which the germs are supposed to be found. The director of the State Serum -Institute is Dr. med. Thorvald Madsen, President of the Health-Committee of the League of Nations. The Finsen medical Light-Institute on Strandboulevard 49, is an institution, which u n ­ der the control and collabora­ tion of the State is governing its own properties and means. The world-famous institu te is founded by the physician

Niels R. Finsen (Nobel Prize 1903) and was inaugurated in 1896. Its object is to inve­ stigate the healing effects of the light on living organisms, chiefly by employing che­ mical rays in the service of the practical medicine. The institu te chiefly treats patients suffering from lupus, heart-deseases, surgical tu b er­ culosis and tuberculosis of the ear, nose and throat. From a small beginning the in stitu te has grown with giant-strides and now comprises a number of buildings with a monumen­ tal m ain-buikling facing the Strandboulevard. The in stitu ­ te has 256 beds. In the garden is placed a momument to the founder, Niels Tt. Finsen, made by the sculptor Viggo Jarl.

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