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Show Perfume for Physical Ailments. A writer in a medical journal says that the time Is approaching when odors of all kinds, agreeable and the reverse, will be made use of in therapeutics. thera-peutics. Already experiments of an elaborate nature have hoen carried on to ascertain the effect of perfumes on the human organism, and they have been found to act with great intensity on nervous Individuals The digestive apparatus is strongly affected by odors, according to the writer, and nausea is a common symptom of this action Several Sev-eral examples are gen of the action of odors. For example, severe falntness Is sometimes observed lo overcome persons per-sons upon their entrance into a room In which tuberoses are kept. Headache Head-ache Is often produced by the odors emanating from the honeysuckle Illy, rose of Sharon or carnation. The odor of betony. in flower, la said to have i-au.'ed intoxication in those who gather gath-er It. The making of linseed decoctions, and the triturating of roses, pinks, walnuts wal-nuts or colocynlh, are often accompanied accom-panied by attacks of syncope Snake-root, Snake-root, or black cohosh, hus a faint, disagreeable disa-greeable odor, which sometimes causes headache and nausea. The odor from freshly ground offee produces in some Individuals a sickening sensation, followed fol-lowed by nausea, and In rare Instances vomiting, but usually It is agreeable and appetizing. The method of treatment would be. in the form of atomixatlon, and the beneficent effect largely exerted exert-ed upon the nervous system. The odors of vanilla and heliotrope are credited with ptssessing a soothing Influence over persons subjected to attacks of nervousness. |