[TheForge][OT] Re: The Smell of Space - sorta OT

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Thanks for this little OT digression Gents...i liked it...pete f

Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> There was an article in the old Journal of Irreproducable Results by an 
> OBGYN who had trained a german Shepard to diagnose female problems by 
> smell.
> In older medical books, a lot of diagnosis was olfactory....pf
> 
> Washington, Aubrey O. wrote:
>> Interestingly, yesterday (or the day before) I heard part of an 
>> interview on NPR with a doctor who was talking about the use of smell 
>> in medical diagnosis.  He said he can tell when he walks in the room 
>> if a patient has poorly controlled diabetes, or renal, or liver 
>> failure just from the smell.  I've also heard an OB-GYN talk about 
>> diagnosing certain STDs from the smell.  (I make no claims as to how 
>> this applies to the smell of space.)
>>
>> Aubrey
>>
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>> The human nose can be trained to very high levels of discrimination.
>> Examples of such are  chefs, coffee roasters, people that mix and 
>> developed
>> perfumes.  There are probably many other jobs where the human nose is
>> trained to detect minute variations in odor.  The capability is there, it
>> just needs to be developed through use and training.
>>
>> D-ski
>> Westminster, MD
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