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Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

De odoribus / Theophrast ; Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar von Ulrich Eigler, Georg Wöhrle ; mit einem botanischen Anhang von Bernhard Herzhoff.

<p>"What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that nineteenth-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors. Medical theories in the nineteenth century assumed that foul odors caused disease and that overcrowded cities--filled with new and stronger stinks--were synonymous with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced new conflicts between complaining citizens and the officials in charge of the air. Smell Detectives looks at the relationship between the construction of scientific expertise, on the one hand, and "common sense"--The olfactory experiences of common people--on the other. Although the rise of germ theory revolutionized medical knowledge and ultimately undid this form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell and their health concerns about foul odors to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes."--</p>

Weyerhaeuser environmental book.

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

xviii, 331 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Smell detectives : an olfactory history of nineteenth-century urban America / Melanie A. Kiechle.

Des odeurs, des parfums et des cométiques ... / [George William Septimus Piesse].

<p>Card advertising a series of events called 'Dirt Season' at Wellcome Collection ... 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE during 2011. There are 4 scratch and sniff patches printed on the front: sewage sludge, 18th century tannery, Marie Antoinette's perfume and 'Pong de Paris'.</p>

Wellcome Collection ephemera. Box 1.

Scratch and sniff : filthy cities : the real smell of history : medieval London, revolutionary Paris ... / BBC Two, Wellcome Trust.

Dissertatio medica odores medicamentorum exhibens / ... submittit Andreas Wåhlin.

Odors, physiology and control / by Carey P. McCord and William N. Witheridge.

Preference behavior and chemoreception : proceedings of a symposium organised by the European Chemoreception Research Organization at "Het Meerdal," Horst, The Netherlands, 15th to 17th May, 1979 / editor-in-chief, J.H.A. Kroeze.

4 unnumbered pages, 96, 40 pages ; 23 cm (8vo)

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De odoribus / Theophrast ; Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar von Ulrich Eigler, Georg Wöhrle ; mit einem botanischen Anhang von Bernhard Herzhoff.

Smell detectives : an olfactory history of nineteenth-century urban America / Melanie A. Kiechle.

Des odeurs, des parfums et des cométiques ... / [George William Septimus Piesse].

Scratch and sniff : filthy cities : the real smell of history : medieval London, revolutionary Paris ... / BBC Two, Wellcome Trust.

Dissertatio medica odores medicamentorum exhibens / ... submittit Andreas Wåhlin.

Odors, physiology and control / by Carey P. McCord and William N. Witheridge.

Preference behavior and chemoreception : proceedings of a symposium organised by the European Chemoreception Research Organization at "Het Meerdal," Horst, The Netherlands, 15th to 17th May, 1979 / editor-in-chief, J.H.A. Kroeze.

Des odeurs, de leur nature et de leur action physiologique. Dissertation sur quelques points de la physiologie des végétaux ... / par A.-Aug. Duméril.

Odour description and odour classification : a multidisciplinary examination / by R. Harper, E.C. Bate Smith and D. G. Land.

Recent advances in odor : theory, measurement, and control / consulting editor, Richard L. Kuehner ; authors, Richard L. Kuehner [and others].

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De odoribus / Theophrast ; Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar von Ulrich Eigler, Georg Wöhrle ; mit einem botanischen Anhang von Bernhard Herzhoff.

Smell detectives : an olfactory history of nineteenth-century urban America / Melanie A. Kiechle.

Des odeurs, des parfums et des cométiques ... / [George William Septimus Piesse].

Scratch and sniff : filthy cities : the real smell of history : medieval London, revolutionary Paris ... / BBC Two, Wellcome Trust.

Dissertatio medica odores medicamentorum exhibens / ... submittit Andreas Wåhlin.

Odors, physiology and control / by Carey P. McCord and William N. Witheridge.

Preference behavior and chemoreception : proceedings of a symposium organised by the European Chemoreception Research Organization at "Het Meerdal," Horst, The Netherlands, 15th to 17th May, 1979 / editor-in-chief, J.H.A. Kroeze.

Des odeurs, de leur nature et de leur action physiologique. Dissertation sur quelques points de la physiologie des végétaux ... / par A.-Aug. Duméril.

Odour description and odour classification : a multidisciplinary examination / by R. Harper, E.C. Bate Smith and D. G. Land.

Recent advances in odor : theory, measurement, and control / consulting editor, Richard L. Kuehner ; authors, Richard L. Kuehner [and others].

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