Light: its influence on life and health / by Forbes Winslow.

  • Winslow, Forbes, 1810-1874.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Light: its influence on life and health / by Forbes Winslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    nature would be a sterile blank, and man, the highest order of intelligent beings, become blighted in mind and degenerated in body. In the composition of this volume I have been under the necessity of levying contributions on the writings of established physicists. I lay no claim to original experimental research, but desire only to be considered as a wanderer on the vast shore of science, picking up here rare shells, there valuable pebbles, and then classifying them, with the view of illustrating a branch of inquiry of deep philosophical interest. It is impossible to contemplate the facts scattered through the following pages with- out being solemnly impressed with a sense of man's deep obligation to God,—the Source of all true Light,—for thus beneficently