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IN a paper entitled “The Penetration of Rays through the Skin, and Radiant Energy for the Treatment of Wounds”, read before the Royal Society of Arts on November 22, Sir Leonard Hill gave a ufeful review of our knowledge of the extent to which luminous, thermal and other radiations can penetrate the skin. He also referred to some of his own recent work on the differences in the penetrating power of heat radiation according to the nature of its source. Experiments on the production of artificial fever by means of short-wave oscillators show that the body temperature can be raised to 105°–106° F. in an hour or so.
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Penetration of the Skin by Heat. Nature 144, 973 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144973b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144973b0