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MY friend Mr. Edmund J. Power sends me the following account of what appears to me to be an interesting fact. I should like to obtain suggestions from physiologists as to the possible explanation of the phenomenon, on the assumption that the blackening of the nose and eyelids really does prevent the injurious action of sunlight on the eyes; and further, I should like to know whether (quite apart from the fact of its utility or futility) the custom has possibly a remote origin in some ceremony or ritual.
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LANKESTER, E. Nose-Blackening as Preventive of Snow-Blindness. Nature 38, 7 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038007c0
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