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Author: Bonnie Blodgett
Pages: 256
Size: 2.631,67 Kb
Publication Date: June 16,2010
Category: Anatomy
In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with an awful cold. She had dropped her feeling of smell. What’s taste without taste? Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps permanently. After an instant shot of a favorite nasal spray up each nostril, the trunk of her nasal area was burning. Phantosmia€”a regular stench of €œevery disgusting thing you may think of tossed right into a blender and pureed€€”may be the initial disorienting stage. It€™s the mind€™s attempt, as Blodgett vividly conveys, to pay for reduction by conjuring up a tortured facsimile. How are smell disorders associated with other illnesses? As the hallucinations fade and anosmia (no smell at all) moves directly into consider their place, Blodgett is usually beset by queries: Why are smell and feeling hand-in-hands? With that, Blodgett€”a specialist garden writer specialized in the sensual pleasures of backyard and kitchen€”premiered on a trip through the senses, the psyche, and the sciences. Blodgett€™s provocative c