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

[Washington, Aubrey O.]

Oh, how I do miss the J. of Irreproducible Results and the Worm Runners Digest!  Scientists just need to step back and look at themselves from time to time.

Aubrey

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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.)
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> 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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