“The Antibiotic Vitamin” (SN: 11/11/06, p. 312) reminds me that in preantibiotic days, tuberculosis patients were put on a fresh-air-and-sunshine regimen. Could the vitamin D so acquired account for the cures this system sometimes produced?
Nancy Axford Sacramento, Calif.
Researcher John J. Cannell points to TB sanitariums as anecdotal evidence that sunlight fights infections.
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