Tun daga farkon zamani, an san kaddarorin magani na haske kuma ana amfani da su don warkarwa. Tsoffin Masarawa sun gina solariums da aka sanya musu gilashi mai launi don amfani da takamaiman launuka na bakan da ake gani don warkar da cututtuka. Masarawa ne suka fara gane cewa idan ka yi wa gilashi fenti, zai tace duk sauran raƙuman haske na bakan da ake gani kuma ya ba ka cikakken nau'in haske ja, wanda shineRadiation mai tsawon nanometer 600-700.Amfani da farko da Helenawa da Romawa suka yi ya jaddada tasirin zafi na haske.
A shekarar 1903, an ba Neils Ryberg Finsen kyautar Nobel a fannin likitanci saboda nasarar amfani da hasken ultraviolet don magance mutanen da ke fama da tarin fuka cikin nasara. A yau, an san Finsen a matsayin uban cutar tarin fuka.fasahar daukar hoto ta zamani.
Ina so in nuna muku wata ƙasida da na samo. Tun farkon shekarun 1900 ne kuma a gaba yana ɗauke da rubutu kamar 'Ji daɗin rana a cikin gida tare da rana ta gida.' Samfuri ne da aka yi a Burtaniya wanda ake kira Vi-Tan ultraviolet home unit kuma ainihin akwatin wanka ne mai haske na ultraviolet incandescent. Yana da kwan fitila mai haske, fitilar tururin mercury, wanda ke fitar da haske a cikin hasken ultraviolet, wanda ba shakka zai samar da bitamin D.