AROMATICS AND THE SOUL DISEASES OF THE THROAT, NOSE, AND EAR By DAN MCKENZIE, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. Royal 8vo. 650 pages. 2 Coloured Plates and 198 Illustrations. =42s.= net. _Times Literary Supplement._—“There is probably no better book on this branch of medicine 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_ [Illustration] LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN (MEDICAL BOOKS) LTD. 1923 INSCRIBED TO DR. V. H. WYATT WINGRAVE IN ADMIRATION OF AN INDOMITABLE SPIRIT _Printed in Great Britain._ PREFACE Having, as I thought, completed this book—bar the Preface, which is, of course, always the last chapter—I sent it in manuscript to an old friend of mine for his opinion. He let me have it. “Your brochure,” he wrote, “is remarkable more perhaps for what it omits than for what it contains. For example, there is no mention whatever made of the _vomero-nasal organ, or organ of Jacobson_.” Then, after drastically sweeping away the much that seems to him redundant in the body of the work, he closes his general criticism (which I omit) with “I should like to have heard your views on the vomero-nasal organ. Parker devotes a whole chapter to it.” A carpenter, according to the adage, is known by his chips. And it was by the simple removal of some superfluous marble, as everyone knows, that the Venus of Milo was revealed to the world—which is only another way of saying the same thing. But what sort of a carpenter is he who leaves among his chips the mouldings of his door? And what should we say of the sculptor, even in these days, who would treat as a superfluity his lady’s chin? No mention of the vomero-nasal or Jacobson’s organ! A serious, nay! a damning, defect.