El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-07
EHE sense Of taste Is q very curIously

E4HE sense Of taste IS q very curiousiy
complicated one and scientists have
\ been perplexed to account for some
Of the things which every schooIboy knows
but doctors couldn't explain. Recent care
ful experiments and investigation have
cleared up many Of these mysteries
Taste Is perhaps the most fundamental
ef al our senses. II exists from birth, and
scientists have even proved that II exists
before birth
It is usually the last Of the senses to
maintain ifs strength in old age. The
toothless old woman rolls a piece Of candy
upon her tongue with pleasure, and the
lettering old nan smacks his lips-or has
done so in the passover his glass CT
vine OF his toddy.
Taste IS called one OF the lower senses,
and yet by an extension Of meaning the
word has been applied 70 appreciation OF
the finest things IN life.
Taste was essential TO our evolution
from the dust IN many Of the lower forms
Of life taste and touch are the only senses
existing
And yet We know singularly little about
the nature Of taste. We do not realize
that IN many cases We recognize things
only OF partly by their smell when We
think We know their flavor. This has
caused a philosopher 10 speak Of the pow
erty Of taste and the self sacrificing char
acter Of smell"
We do not IS rule know that We taste
some things with one part OF the tongue
and some with another and that part OF
our tongue IS without taste.
These matters are explained very inter
estingly In g new BOOK THE Sense OF
Taste" By Professor r. L Hoilingworth,
Ph. D. associate professor Of psychology
in Columbia University, AM Dr.. A. T. Poi
feuberger, Of the same institution pub
ushsd By Moiat, Yard & Coz.
The process OF perceiving the taste Of
things with our brains Is especially compli-
Gated and has never been fully explained
Three Of the cranisl nerves, those
nerves passing directly from the head and
face to the brain, are now believed to
carry the taste fbres from the mouth OF
these the iingual nerve carries the dbres
from the forward two-thirds Of the tongue.
the upper surface and the sides OF that Of
fhe tongue and the tip. Another nerve,
the ninth, OF glossO-pharyngeal," carries
the fbres from the back Of the tongue. in
GLIDING the soft palate The great pneu-
uogastric nerve trunk coming from the
stomach carries the fbres from the eL-
IRENE back Of the tongue and the larynL
What has puzzled the scientist most i5
how the fbres from the tongue reach the
nerve trunks in which they are found.
me connection pew cen q sense organ ana
the brain consists Of q series Of separate
links. Each one Of these links consists Of
q body which contains the nucleus and two
sets Of branches.
In one set the branches are very short
and numerous, called dendrites, meaning
little bushes" IN the other there is usu-
ally one branch, called the axone. which IS
relatively long. A group Of these cell
bodies is called q ganglion. The ganglion
IS a kind Of telephone central"
-Four ganglions outside the brain are
concerned n the sense Of taste. From
these ganglions the branches called den
drites pass to the tongue and are found
twiuing round the taste cells in the taste
buds The other branches. the axones-
pass into the brain and finally end IN some
brain centre.
When the Gasserlsn ganglion (the nerve