Color-Blindness: Its Dangers and Its Detection (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Color-Blindness: Its Dangers and Its Detection

I have dedicated this volume to my friend Professor Holmgren, because I consider that to him above all others do we owe the present and future control of color-blindness on land and sea, by which life and property are safer, and the risks of travelling less.

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Excerpt from Color-Blindness: Its Dangers and Its Detection

Preface; Introduction; Historical Cases of Color-Blindness; Color-Blind Mistakes; Former Classification of the Color-Blind; Present Classification of the Color-Blind in Accordance with the Young-Helmholtz Theory of Color-Perception; Precise Condition of the Vision of the Color-Blind; Color-Blindness from Disease or Injury; Color-Blindness Hereditary; Physical Peculiarities connected with Color-Blindness; Frequency of Color-Blindness in Males; Infrequency of Color-Blindness in Females; Concealment of Color-Blindness in Practical Life; Incurability of Congenital Color-Blindness; Palliation of Congenital Color-Blindness; Dangers arising from Color-Blindness on Railroads. - Condition of Color-Blind Employés

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.