Abstract
THE mechanism of the senses of smell and taste is apt to be unduly neglected, probably on account of the fact that in civilised man these senses do not play a large part in intellectual processes. But they bring before us some interesting problems as to the nature of receptor organs in general. It will be remembered that the object of such organs is to excite a set of nerve fibres on the incidence of some external agency of such a kind or intensity as to be unable to affect these nerve fibres directly. This is done by the production of some powerfully stimulating agent in the receptor mechanism at the terminations of these nerve fibres.
Smell, Taste, and Allied Senses in the Vertebrates.
By Prof. G. H. Parker. (Monographs on Experimental Biology.) Pp. 192. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1922.) 10s. 6d. net.
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B., W. Smell, Taste, and Allied Senses in the Vertebrates. Nature 111, 629–630 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111629a0
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