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AROMATICS AND THE SOUL
DISEASES OF
THE THROAT, NOSE,
AND EAR
By Dan McKenzie, M.D.,F.R.C.S.E. Royal 8vo. 650pages. 2 Coloured Plates and198 Illustrations. 42s. net.
Times Literary Supplement.—“There isprobably no better book on this branch ofmedicine and surgery in existence.”
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
(MEDICAL BOOKS) LTD.
AROMATICS AND THE SOUL
 A STUDY OF SMELLS
BY
DAN McKENZIE, M.D. (Glasg.)
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, EDINBURGH
“Natura rerum quae sit odoribus intenta sunt....”
Q. Horatii Flacci Carminum, Lib. V.
“There are whose study is of smells”
R. Kipling’s version of the same
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
(MEDICAL BOOKS) LTD.
1923
INSCRIBED TO
Dr. V. H. WYATT WINGRAVE
IN ADMIRATION
OF
AN INDOMITABLE SPIRIT
Printed in Great Britain.
v
PREFACE
Having, as I thought, completed this book—barthe Preface, which is, of course, always thelast chapter—I sent it in manuscript to an oldfriend of mine for his opinion.
He let me have it.
“Your brochure,” he wrote, “is remarkablemore perhaps for what it omits than for what itcontains. For example, there is no mentionwhatever made of the vomero-nasal organ, or organof Jacobson.”
Then, after drastically sweeping away the muchthat seems to him redundant in the body of thework, he closes his general criticism (which Iomit) with “I should like to have heard yourviews on the vomero-nasal organ. Parker devotesa whole chapter to it.”
A carpenter, according to the adage, is knownby his chips. And it was by the simple removalof some superfluous marble, as everyone knows,that the Venus of Milo was revealed to the world—whichis only another way of saying the samething.
But what sort of a carpenter is he who leavesviamong his chips the mou                        
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