On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 7:59:55 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:

> Things were a lot simpler back in the old days. People just used film leader
> or glass darkened with candle soot to view the sun. As far as I know there
> was no mass epidemic of blindness caused by viewing a solar eclipse. These
> days, it seen as a serious public health issue.

Not complete blindness, perhaps, but retinal damage nevertheless.

In the old days, it was a lot simpler when doctors didn't wash their
hands and women died in droves of puerperal fever. Now we know better.

Cindy Hamilton