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Nose-Blackening as Preventive of Snow-Blindness

Nature volume 38, pages 101–102 (1888)Cite this article

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As a partial answer to Prof. Ray Lankester's inquiry on nose-blackening as preventive of snow-blindness, may I offer some observations which I have made in my many wanderings in the higher Alps in early summer, when I have necessarily had much experience of the effects of snow on the human body?

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BOWLES, R. Nose-Blackening as Preventive of Snow-Blindness. Nature 38, 101–102 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038101d0

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