Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light
by
Daniel Freund
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide...