The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-02
QUEER THINGS ABOUT NOSES.
The Nose of Civilization All Right Will
Some Interesting Exceptions.

The Nose OF Civilization All Right with
Some Interesting Exceptions.
From the New york sun.
The following paragraph has boon going
the rounds OF the press:
IN. Lc Dec. tho French sayant says
that the nose Is gradually losing lis power
TO discharge lis traditional function in the
case Of the civilized peoples. When the
sense Of smell vanishcs altogether, as will
Infallibly he tho ease one day, the organ
itself will follow its example sooner or
later, rs nature never conscrycs useless
organs, and the nose must 40. The oliact-
tory sense Is kecncr In the savage than In
the civilized man."
A New York specialist on the nose, 10
whom this was shown, said:
well, frenchmcn seem 10 delight In
making such cxtAyngant efaiemonts
There are men and women OF today who
have the most powerful sense Of smell
Tho trouble Ia that II Ia not always edu-
cate, hsl that Of n savage. Savagcs have
good eyes. good ears, and good noses, and
because they educate their eyes aud their
ears aud their noses they can hear, SEQ
and smell better than man who does not
educate those senses. As Ear as the oliac-
tory sense dying out II concerned. that Is
not true. Think the reason this French
sayant thought No IN because 80 many pco-
pie nowadays have colds aud catarrh, duo
TO the civilization that wo arc struggling
under. lmporicctly heated rooms, Inn
proper ventilation, n thousand and ono
conditions that an not all sanitary,
produce colds and catarrh; aud
when man has catarrh his oliaciory
sense, Of course, IL intericrcd with. A
healthy civilized man who las no catarrh
can smell just as well as a savage can
smell, aud can 500 Just a. well rs a savage.
A modern Anglo-Saxon. born aud brought
up In civilization, u taken out into the
woods and subjected 10 the same cduca-
ton In woodcrait that savage has will
leave the savage FAR behind In his sense Of
smell and tho other senses. You know II
ascd r. be said that an Indian could run
all day and run all night and endure
much moro than white man; but In
these dx-day-go-as-you-plcase races an In
dian has no show whatever.
"All the senses are very intimately con-
nccied with each other. That there Ia
clo>c relation between the eve aud the
NOSE IL shown when a person has what IL
lWHUtNiiN " IVA htt Ntuls iUt
eyes will water and feel weak. Snuff pep
per az irritants Of any Kind up the nose
aud Il makes the eyes water. Very often
there arc polipii, or little growths In the
nose that irritato unconsciously often.
times A great many specialists have
found that iarrighicdncss II affected by
the nose, and that the removal ol obsiruc-
tons In the nose will improve tho ewes, ~
that patients will not have 10 wear glaSscs
And nearsighicd patients, u Is claimed,
have also boon curcd of their noaruighicd-
ness by treating the nose. Whcm per-
sous eycsight u affected by growths In
the nose, temporary relief has been OBJ
talned by treating the parts with cocaine.
What Is thus temporarily accomplished by
the use Of cocoainc, u Is declared, can be
permanently accomplished by removing
the distractions. .Lt
Persons having such distractions also
have nose colds which como from curious
irritable susceptibility Of tho nose, caused
by tho pollen OF different plants. Among
tho various III effects which are produced
by growths In the nose Aro noises IN the
ear, deafness. chronic catarrh, heart
troubles. stomach troubles, oven troubles
with the skin. To ILLUSTRATIVE Many opera
singors. when their voices fail, will consult
q nose specialist, who will restore their
Voices frequently by some simple nasal
treatment. Not only asthma has boon