Abstract
Fresh air, exercise, and a healthy diet have been the nostrums of physicians throughout history. Modem physicians have been forgetting the “fresh air,” which we can now understand as the value of outdoor daylight. A more scientific understanding of the value of daylight has developed recently. Moreover, we have learned how a physician can substitute bright artificial light to help patients who no longer spend much time outdoors.
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Kripke, D.F. (1998). The Uses of Bright Light in an Office Practice. In: Poceta, J.S., Mitler, M.M. (eds) Sleep Disorders. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2772-2_3
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