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Almost 300 years ago the French philosopher René Descartes published a drawing showing the optic perception of events, their transference to the brain by means of cords, and the secretion of fluids to the extremities by means of tubes with the aid of the pineal gland (Fig. 12).
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Hollwich, F. (1979). Light and the Pineal Gland. In: The Influence of Ocular Light Perception on Metabolism in Man and in Animal. Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6132-2_3
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