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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.

"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."--

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.

Medical Heritage Library

Osphrésiologie, ou, Traité des odeurs, du sens et des organes de l'olfaction : avec l'histoire détailée des maladies du nez et des fosses nasales, et des opérations qui leur conviennent / par Hippol. Cloquet.

Presented by Kevin Fong, this Horizon special looks back over previous episodes which have dealt with the human senses. Clips are shown from the following previous Horizon documentaries: Sensory Deprivation from 2008, an experiment in which six volunteers were kept in sensory deprivation in a nuclear bunker for two days. How Much Do You Smell? from 2002 showed research into the sense of smell, with particular focus on how animals use smell. Human Senses: Smell from 2003 looked at how smell affects us, whilst A Touch of Sensitivity from 1979 features human touch from birth onwards. It also includes footage of young primates being deprived of touch. In Science Topic from 1984 a sportswoman is asked to play tennis whilst her hearing is distracted and in The Mind's Eye from 1980 the world of human vision is explored. In Human Senses: Vision from 2003, eye tracking is recorded whilst Science and Life from 1962 attempted to explain how the retina works. Human Brain: Seeing performed an experiment in which a woman was asked to wear some spectacles which turned the world upside down for one week. Colourful Notions from 1984 looked at vision from a neurological perspective and Human Brain: Seeing from 2002 explored the eye in terms of its likeness to a computer. Human Senses: Vision from 2003 explored the way in which vision leads to instinctive body reflexes and can easily be tricked visually; Science topic: Senses from 1984 explores the realm of optical illusions. Is Seeing Believing? from 2010 looks at how visual stimulus can play tricks on what we think we hear whilst Orange Sherbert Kisses from 1984 explores the realm of synaesthesia as does Derek Tastes of Earwax from 2004. Broken Images from 1987 follows John, a man who no longer recognises what he sees, after suffering a stroke which left him with visual agnosia. Visions of the Blind from 1976 attempts to show how a lack of vision affects all the other senses. Science All Around: Senses, 1976, showed an experiment to help the blind by using the sort of sound waves bats use to navigate space in the form of echo locating glasses. Visions of the Blind, 1976 showed experiments in which sight was replaced by touch in the blind; the 1970s was also a time of experimentation for the deaf as seen in Curtain of Silence from 1973. In 1984 Tomorrow's World featured cochlear implants

Horizon.

Horizon

Blink: a horizon guide to the senses.

International scientific series (London, England)

The International scientific series

The five senses of man / by Julius Bernstein.

Rompa : Spring/Summer 2014 : the complete sensory resource for all generations / Rompa Ltd.

Presenter Kathy Clugston explores the human sense of smell, and discusses her experiences suffering from Anosmia. Chris Kelly and founder of Fifth Sense Duncan Boak talk about their experiences of the sudden loss of smell. They compare both the trivial, and more significant, ways having Anosmia affects everyday life. Founder of the Centre for the Study of the Senses at UCL Professor Barry Smith explains how humans are able to turn off familiar smells. Rhinologist Dr Simon Gyen explains how smell recognition works. Clugston compares Anosmia with Hyposmia. She then talks with her mother, who recalls an incident involving Clugston not being able to smell a gas heater leak. Next, Clugston visits a smell clinic at James Paget Hospital, Lowestoft. Clinical Research Nurse Jane Woods performs a smell test on Clugston. Darren Logan at the Wellcome Trust Genomics and Genetics Sanger Institute explains how volatile chemicals in substances that we can smell communicate this sense to the brain. Gyen discusses how a human’s sense of smell has evolved, and compares the effects of anosmia in humans to other animals. Founder of the Smell Clinic Carl Philpott explains the most common causes of smell loss. He examines Clugston’s nasal passages using an endoscope. Clugston and her partner, Broadcaster Jim Lee, discuss how Clugston’s Anosmia affects their everyday life. Professor Asifa Majid talks about smell memories. Clugston then explains Carl Linnaeus’ smell classifications, found in the Linnaean Taxonomy. Majid describes a study she conducted on the Jihai people of the Malay Penninsula, in which she discovered a rich olfactory language. Kelly recounts her experiences undergoing smell training and a course in perfumery, after losing her sense of smell. Boak explains how Fifth Sense trains people to distinguish tastes, despite not being able to smell. Smith and Clugston conduct a wine tasting session, and Smith explains the function of the trigeminal nerve in distinguishing certain components of smell. Next, Clugston undergoes an MRI scan to explore the part of her brain that manages olfactory responses. Gyen compares Clugston’s scan to another of a person with a good sense of smell.

The neglected sense.

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 22.9 x 16 cm

An old woman with a flower; representing the sense of smell. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.

Perfume critic and collector, Turin Luca, a Biophysicist at University College London, has proposed a new theory about how we smell. His theory might have a powerful impact on the medical profession. He travels to Paris to meet perfumer and chemist Maurice Roucel who breaks fragrances down to their individual molecules. What gives a molecule its odour is, as yet, unknown. Chemist Charles Cell describes why it is so difficult to read the molecular structure of smells. Luca's new theory followed on from the research of John Amoore who discovered that most people can't smell at least one odour. He realised that this was due to the fact that receptors were missing inside the nose, meaning that they couldn't detect the shape of certain molecules. But Luca's research took this further and he started to study smell as being related to vibrations, that the nose detects vibrations.

A code in the nose.

The Ferrier lecture

pages [299]-319, pages 26-29 of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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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.

Osphrésiologie, ou, Traité des odeurs, du sens et des organes de l'olfaction : avec l'histoire détailée des maladies du nez et des fosses nasales, et des opérations qui leur conviennent / par Hippol. Cloquet.

Blink: a horizon guide to the senses.

The five senses of man / by Julius Bernstein.

Rompa : Spring/Summer 2014 : the complete sensory resource for all generations / Rompa Ltd.

The neglected sense.

An old woman with a flower; representing the sense of smell. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.

A code in the nose.

Inquiries into the anatomical basis of olfactory discrimination / by W.E. Le Gros Clark.

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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.

Osphrésiologie, ou, Traité des odeurs, du sens et des organes de l'olfaction : avec l'histoire détailée des maladies du nez et des fosses nasales, et des opérations qui leur conviennent / par Hippol. Cloquet.

Blink: a horizon guide to the senses.

The five senses of man / by Julius Bernstein.

Rompa : Spring/Summer 2014 : the complete sensory resource for all generations / Rompa Ltd.

The neglected sense.

An old woman with a flower; representing the sense of smell. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.

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