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Gestures & Panic. On arriving at the League of Nations' new headquarters which smell strongly of fresh plaster and paint, the British and French delegations, as a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Benito Mussolini, set about trying to pack the Credentials Committee with a view to having it bar His Majesty Haile Selassie who in London had clapped on his derby hat and was winging toward Geneva. As a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Adolf Hitler, some of whose German bombing planes were strafing the Red militia in Spain last week (see p. 19). the British and French lobbied furiously in efforts...
...half-brained patient made a remarkably good convalescence, went back to her family, capably took care of the house and children, gained weight and strength. Some paralysis and dullness of sensation remained on her left side; her face was lopsided. She could hear with only one ear, smell with only one nostril. Nevertheless, her friends noted no mental deterioration or personality change. She read constantly. Her sense of distance and perspective seemed unaffected...
...with head down and low growls, it probably means to bite but will frequently be too puzzled to do so if the person stands with feet together and hands on chest. That dogs are inclined to attack people who are afraid of them Author Terhune ascribes to a "fear-smell" arising from increased production of adrenalin in the body. Dogs detect, recognize, hate and despise this odor...
...experiment on a patient whose mouth was blocked off from his stomach by a cancer of the esophagus, who could receive nourishment only through a tube in the abdominal wall. Through this tube the experimenters introduced garlic soup. Three hours later the patient's breath began to smell, continued to do so for twelve hours. In this case the pungent food was never in the mouth...
...after he ate salad garnished with onion and garlic, the air exhaled through the tube became malodorous. In this instance the breath had no contact with the mouth, throat, esophagus or stomach, must therefore have picked up the contamination in the lungs. Unwilling to trust their own sense of smell entirely, Drs. Blankenhorn & Richards called in technicians, hospital internes and residents who had no idea what the experiments were designed to prove. None of these observers had any difficulty identifying the subjects' breaths as garlic-laden...