SENSE OF SMELL
CLAIMED CARRIER OF DISEASE
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CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts),
November 21
The discovery that the sense of smell is an avenue through which somo of the most baffling epedimics, are spread, is announced by Dr Simon FleXcer, who has reported on experiments made in the matter. These have shown that the virus causing infantile paralysis enters the brains of monkeys by travelling from their noses through the olfactory nerves. Not only does the virus/enter via the nerves of smell but those nerves from “two way transports.” The virus can pass from a paralysisinfected brain down through the olfactory nerves, and out through the nose.
The insidious nature of the attack through the olfactory nerves is shown by monkeys which were immunised so that. they did not get paralysis when the virus was injected directly into their brains, and yet the disease attacked them when the virus was allowed to enter their noses.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1933, Page 6
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158SENSE OF SMELL Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1933, Page 6
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