Volume 6 (Coleb to Damasci): Colour Blindness.
These days referred to as Colour Vision Deficiency. This was a difficult one - I thankfully know nothing of suffering from this condition and my initial instinct to spin it off to a consideration of the beauties of Titian Blue, would be in poor taste.
When I introduced this year's calendar theme, I reflected that the 1959 Britannica was a neat approximation of the state of human knowledge at my birth. Armed with that most dangerous of things, a liitle knowledge of my own, and that equally dangerous thing, the internet, I set out to learn whether a cure for the condition has been found in the intervening sixty-five years. So far as I can tell, it has not. I stand, indeed hope, to be corrected.
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