| Show MUCH POISON IN PERFUMES 9 power to intoxicate and benumb proved by experiments on frogs 1 though it Is popularly believed that strong perfumes have power to hicox j leate and benumb and though workers in perfume laboratories are occasionally so much affected as to need cal aid little attention bag has been paid by physiologists to the effect ot of odors but now a german physician has mado made a series ot of experiments which fully confirm the popular belief the experiments peri ments were ere made not on human beings but on frogs which were put under glass bells with s ua u a nees katr sat abed ted with carious essences the effects are similar to those of or chloroform there Is a brief stage of e excitement followed by partial or complete paralysis although many odors were used they were found to differ only in rapidity of action and the notoriously heavy and beady heady mu musk sk was found to be one of the slow est camphor peppermint lavender lavendee and cloves are also slow while turpentine aldei flower biang peau d despagne asafetida of carbon mustard a and d nicotine act quickly and energetically in some cases the effect was iastan 1 the frog would jump about in a lively manner but would soon stop close his eyes and rub his nose with his paws his breathing and heart action became slow and labor labored and he perspired profusely it if ho he still stilt tried to spring he often fell on lils hi back and had hard work getting on his feet again if the action of the th fume was continued tho the frog frogs s breathing became convulsive his head fell forward and his only response to an external stimulus was a spasmodic attempt to breathe his ills eyes turned outward and bis his heart beat moie mote and more slowly until it stopped altogether |
