Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-04
QUEER THINGS ABOUT NOSES.
The Nose of Civilization All Right vii
 Some Interesting Exceptions.

The Nose of Civilization All Right with
 Some Interesting Exceptions.
 The following paragraph has been going the rounds of the press:
 "M. Le Bee, the French savant, says that the nose is gradually losing it's power to discharge its traditional frlnc- tion in the case of the civilized peoples, when the sense of smell vanishes alto gether. as will infallibly be the case one day, the organ itself will follow it's ex- ample sooner or later as nature never conserves useless organs, and the nose must go.' The olfactory sense is keener in the savage than in the civilized man."
 A New York specialist on the nose, to whom this was shown, said:
 "Well. Frenchmen seem to delight in making such extravagant statements. There are men and women of today who have the most powerful sense of smell. The trouble is that 1t is not always edu- cated like that of the savage Savages have good eyes, and good ears, and good noses, and because they educate their eyes and their ears and their noses they can hear, see and smell better than man who does not educate those senses. AS far as the olfactory sense dying out is concerned, that is not true. l think the reason this French savant thought so is because so many people nowadays have colds and cstarrh, due to the civ ilization that we are struggling under. Imperfectly heated rooms improper ventilation, thousand and one conditions that are not all sanitary, produce colds and catarrh; and when a man has catarrh his olfactory sense, of course, is interfered with. A healthy civilized man who has no catarrh can smell just es well as a savage can smell, and can see just as well as savage. A modern Anglo-Saxon, born and brought up in civilization, if taken out into the woods and subjected to the same education in woodcraft that savage has, will leave the savage far be- hind in his sense of smell and the other senses You know it used to be said that an Indian could run all day and run all night, and endure much more ] than white man; but in these six-day go-as- you please races an Indian has no show whatever.
 '-Au the senses are very intimately connected with each other. That there is a close relation between the eye and the nose is shown when person has what is popularly called a cold in the | head. The eyes will water and feel weak. Snuff pepper or irritants of any kind up the nose and it makes the eyes water. Very often there are polipii, or | little growths in the nose that irritate unconsciously oftentimes. A great many | specialists have found that farsighted ness is affected by the nose, and that the rem6val of obstructions in the nose will improve tLe eyes, so that patients will not have to wear glasses. And near sighted patients, it Is claimed, have also been cured of their nearsightedness by 'reating the nose. Where a person s -Yesight is affected by growths in the Jose, temporary relief has been obtained by treating the parts with cocoaine. What is thus temporarily accomplished by the use of cocoaine, it Is declared, can be permanently accomplished by remov- ing the Instructions.
 ''Persons having such Instructions also have nose colds which come from a GU rious irritable susceptibility of the nose, caused by the pollen of different plants. Among the various ill effects which are produced by growths in the nose are noises in the ear, deafness, chronic ca tarrh of the throat, failure of the voice, asthma, heart troubles. stomach troubles, even troubles with the skin. To illus trate; Many opera singers, when theil voices fail, will consult nose specialist, who will restore their voices frequently by some simple nasal treatment. Not only asthma has been cured by such treatment but many other chest troubles. chronic bronchitis notably. Soskin diseases of tht most obstinate forms, acme especially where red pimples come out all over tht face. have been cured by nasal treatment It seems hard to believe, but one mar who had been troubled for years by wha was supposed to be rheumatism in hi knee was entirely cured by the remova of certain growths in the nose. '-Nev York Sun.