Taste, Touch and Smell 038199953X, 9780381999537

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The "Reason

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Why

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Books

TOUCH

AND

SMELL Irving and

Ruth Adler

The John Day Company

New

York

THE "REASON WHY" BOOKS AIR

ATOMIC ENERGY ATOMS AND MOLECULES THE CALENDAR COAL COMMUNICATION DIRECTIONS AND ANGLES ENERGY THE EARTH'S CRUST EVOLUTION FIBERS

HEAT HOUSES INSECTS AND PLANTS IRRIGATION: CHANGING DESERTS TO GARDENS

LANGUAGE AND MAN

LEARNING ABOUT STEEL THROUGH THE STORY OF A NAIL MACHINES MAGNETS NUMBERS OLD AND NEW NUMERALS: NEW DRESSES FOR OLD NUMBERS OCEANS RIVERS SETS

SHADOWS STORMS TASTE,

TOUCH AND SMELL

THINGS THAT SPIN TREE PRODUCTS WHY? A BOOK OF REASONS WHY AND HOW? A SECOND BOOK OF REASONS YOUR EARS YOUR EYES Copyright

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© 1966 by Irving and Ruth Adler

may be reprinted, or reproduced or utilized any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. All rights reserved.

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Canada by Longman Canada Limited.

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 66-11448 Printed in the United States of America Fifth Impression

Contents Natural Teaching Machines

The

Electrical

Messages

Network Inside You

to the Brain

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The Skin Senses Touch

12

Experiments with Touch

14

Pressure

17

Hot and Cold

19

Pain

22

Getting Used to Sensations

28

Pain-killers

30

Anesthetics and Surgery

33

Animal Taste and Smell

36

Man's Sense of Smell

38

Facts and Theories About Smell

40

Man's Sense of Taste

44

Word

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List

3 Natural Teaching Machines

Your senses are natural teaching ma-

They teach you everything you know about the world around you. They help you perceive (pur-SEEVE). chines.

You perceive shapes, sizes, distances and colors through your eyes with your sense

of sight

.

You perceive sounds through your

ears with your sense of hearing.

and your

ears are your

sense organs.* sizes

Your eyes

most important

You can perceive

and sounds with your sense

shapes,

of touch,

too.

There are other things, however, that

you can perceive with your sense that

you cannot perceive

as easily

with

With your sense

your eyes and

ears.

touch you can

tell easily

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of touch

of

whether some-

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thing

is

hard or

soft or

You have other

rough or smooth.

senses with

which you

perceive things that your eyes and ears

You perceive tastes organs in your mouth and

cannot perceive at with special

all.

smells with special organs in your nose.

Taste and smell are called chemical senses

because

make

it

it is

the chemicals in things that

possible for

you

to taste

and smell

them.

You can feel whether something is hot or cold. You can feel something pressing against your skin.

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pressure (PRESH-er).

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