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Remembering Smell

Remembering Smell

A Memoir of Losing - And Discovering - The Primal Sense

by Bonnie Blodgett
Hardback
Publication Date: 16/06/2010

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In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett a professional garden writer devoted to the sensual pleasures of garden and kitchen was launched on a journey through the senses, the psyche, and the sciences. Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps forever. She had lost her sense of smell.

Phantosmia a constant stench of every disgusting thing you can think of tossed into a blender and pureed is the first disorienting stage. It s the brain s attempt, as Blodgett vividly conveys, to compensate for loss by conjuring up a tortured facsimile. As the hallucinations fade and anosmia (no smell at all) moves in to take their place, Blodgett is beset by questions: Why are smell and mood hand-in-hand? How are smell disorders linked to other diseases? What is taste without flavor? Blodgett s provocative conversations with renowned geneticists, smell dysfunction experts, neurobiologists, chefs, and others ultimately lead to a life-altering understanding of smell, and to the most transformative lesson of all: the olfactory nerve, in ways unlike any other in the human body has the extraordinary power to heal.

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ISBN:
9780618861880
9780618861880
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
16-06-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
245
Dimensions (mm):
211x147x25mm
Weight:
0.36kg

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