Exposure to sunlight is also known to have a positive effect on a person’s mental health.
Dr. Jean Saidman, who ran the Institute of Actinology in Paris, recognized these benefits.
Saidman was born in Romania in 1897, but emigrated to France as a teenager.
In 1929, he designed and patented a rotating solarium to better aid ultraviolet light treatment.
The first rotating solarium went up in 1930 on the French community of Aix-les-Bains located in the Savoy Alps.
There was a monitoring and control room at the center of the wing.
This was flanked on either side by glass-fronted treatment cabins for the patients.
The movable platform was 25 meters long and 6 meters wide and weighed 80 tons.
This solarium is the only one still standing, although disused.
The other two got destroyed during World War 2.
Tilting bed inside the revolving solarium.
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View of the cabins for sunbathing.
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The solarium of Jamnagar, India.
