Your nose has strange and wonderful powers, mostly hidden in a place that rarely shows up in Gray's Anatomy. Jacobson's Organ connects directly with the lower, reptilian brain. Watson is a fun writer, and this book is filled with more than you would ever want to know about noses, sex, perfumes, plants, and stink. The armpit is a veritable hive of stink glands. In the armpit, Apocrine glands are heaped up, two or three to a follicle, covering a patch the size of a tennis ball, coating the long underarm hairs with their oils, vaporizing easily in the warmth, dissolving and spreading with the help of sweat glands that keep the whole area moist and bacterially active.
Schizophrenic patients have their own characteristic odor.
In the days of the Romans, adulterers were punished by having their noses amputated. The temperature of your mucosa rises by 1.5 degrees Centigrade immediately after intercourse, making us wonder about scientists hanging around congressional couples long enough to stick thermometers up their hot little noses. As Watson points out, This sheds an interesting new light on Pfizer's recent best-selling drug for impotent men, which is being marketed, with or without knowledge of Sanskrit, under the brand name of Viagra. There are few nasal items that Watson misses. One such turned up in Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media.