Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-08-16
THE oLFAoToRY SENSE.
a New York Specialist Tells Some Quo
Things About the Nose,

Ait6S dpout the nose
The following paragraph has been
going the rounds Of the press:
IN. lie Bee, the French savant, says
that the nose is gradually losing its
power to discharge its traditional func-
tions in the case OF the civilized peo-
pie; when the sense of smell vanishes
altogether, as will infallibly be the
case one day, the organ itself will fol-
low its example sooner or later, as Ma
ture never conservcs useless organs,
and the nose must CO. Thel olfactory
sense is keener in the savage than in
the civilized man."
A New York specialist on the nose,
TO whom this was shown, says:
swell, Frenchmen seem to delight
in making such extravagant state
ments. There are men and women of
to-day who have the most powerful
sense of smell. The trouble is that
it is not always educated like that of
the savage. Savages have good eyes,
and good ears, and good noses, and be-
cause they educate their eyes, and their
ears and their noses they can hear, see
and smell better that a man who does
not educate those senses. AS far as the
olfactory sense dying out is concerned,
that is not true, | think the reason
this French savant thought SO is be-
cause so many people nowadays have
colds and catarrh, due to the civiliza-
ton we are struggling under. Imper-
fectly heated rooms, improper ventila-
ton, a thousand and one conditions
that are not all sanitary, produce
colds and catarrh; and when man
has catarrh his olfactory sense, of
course, is interfered with. A healthy
civilized man who has no catarrh can
smell just as well as savage, and can
see just as well as savage. A mod
orn Anglo-Saxon, born and brought up
in civilization, if taken out into the
woods aud subjected to the same edu-
cation in woodcraft that a savage has,
will leave the savage far behind in his
sense of smell and the other senses.
You know it used to be said that an
Indian could run all day and all night,
and endure much more than a white
man; but in these six-day-go-as-you
please races an Indian has no show
whatever.
"All 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 popularity called a cold in the
head. The eyes will water and feel
weak. Snuff, pepper or any irritants
of the 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 far-sightedness is affected by the
nose, and that the removal of obstruc-
tions in the nose will improve the eyes
so that patients will not have to wear
glasses. And near-sighted patients, it
is claimed, have also been cured of
their near-sightedness by treating the
nose. Where a persons eyesight is
affected by growths in the nose, tenn
porary relief has been obtained by
treating the parts with cocaine. What
is thus temporarily accomplished by
the use of cocaine, it is declared, can
be permanently accomplished by re-
moving the Instructions.
persons having such Instructions
also have nose colds, which come from
a curious irritable susceptibility of the
nose, caused by the pollen of different
plants. Among the various i'll effects
which are produced by growths in the
nose are noises in the ear, deafness,
chronic catarrh of the throat, failure
of the voice, asthma, heart troubles,
stomach troubles, even troubles with
the skin. To illustrates: Many opera
singers, when their voices fail, will
consult q nose specialist, who will re-
store their voices frequently by some
simple nasal treatment. Not only
asthma has been cured by such treat
ment, but many other chest troubles,
chronic bronchitis notably. So skin
diseases of the most obstinate forms,
acme especially, where red pimples
come out all over the face, have been
cured by nasal treatment. 1t seems
hard to believe, but one man who had
been troubled for years by what was
supposed to be rheumatism in his
knee was entirely cured by the re-
moval of certain growths in the nose. "
st. Louis Post Dispatch.