Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
QUEER THINGS ABOUT NOSES.
The Nose of Civilization All Right witt
Some Interesting Exceptions.

The Nose of Civilization All Right with
Some Interesting Exceptions.
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-
ton 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 its ex-
ample sooner or later, as nature never
conserves useless organs, and the nose
must CO. 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 it is not always edu-
Gated 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. think the
reason this French savant thought so is
because so many people nowadays have
colds and catarrh, due to the CIV
ilization that we are struggling
under. Imperfectly heated rooms,
improper ventilation, 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 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 a
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 a white man; but in these six-day-
go-as-you-please races an Indian has no
show whatever.
"Al the senses are very intimately
connected with each other. That there
is a close relation between the eye and
the nose Is shown when a person has
what is popularity called 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
removal of distractions 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 nearsightedness by
treating the nose. Where a person S
eyesight is affected by growths in the
nose, 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 distractions.
persons having such distractions 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 i'll 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 their
voices fail, will consult a 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 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 removal
of certain growths in the nose. New
| York Sun.