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The "Reason
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Why
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Books
TOUCH
AND
SMELL Irving and
Ruth Adler
The John Day Company
New
York
THE "REASON WHY" BOOKS AIR
ATOMIC ENERGY ATOMS AND MOLECULES THE CALENDAR COAL COMMUNICATION DIRECTIONS AND ANGLES ENERGY THE EARTH'S CRUST EVOLUTION FIBERS
HEAT HOUSES INSECTS AND PLANTS IRRIGATION: CHANGING DESERTS TO GARDENS
LANGUAGE AND MAN
LEARNING ABOUT STEEL THROUGH THE STORY OF A NAIL MACHINES MAGNETS NUMBERS OLD AND NEW NUMERALS: NEW DRESSES FOR OLD NUMBERS OCEANS RIVERS SETS
SHADOWS STORMS TASTE,
TOUCH AND SMELL
THINGS THAT SPIN TREE PRODUCTS WHY? A BOOK OF REASONS WHY AND HOW? A SECOND BOOK OF REASONS YOUR EARS YOUR EYES Copyright
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© 1966 by Irving and Ruth Adler
may be reprinted, or reproduced or utilized any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 66-11448 Printed in the United States of America Fifth Impression
Contents Natural Teaching Machines
The
Electrical
Messages
Network Inside You
to the Brain
4 6 8
10
The Skin Senses Touch
12
Experiments with Touch
14
Pressure
17
Hot and Cold
19
Pain
22
Getting Used to Sensations
28
Pain-killers
30
Anesthetics and Surgery
33
Animal Taste and Smell
36
Man's Sense of Smell
38
Facts and Theories About Smell
40
Man's Sense of Taste
44
Word
47
List
3 Natural Teaching Machines
Your senses are natural teaching ma-
They teach you everything you know about the world around you. They help you perceive (pur-SEEVE). chines.
You perceive shapes, sizes, distances and colors through your eyes with your sense
of sight
.
You perceive sounds through your
ears with your sense of hearing.
and your
ears are your
sense organs.* sizes
Your eyes
most important
You can perceive
and sounds with your sense
shapes,
of touch,
too.
There are other things, however, that
you can perceive with your sense that
you cannot perceive
as easily
with
With your sense
your eyes and
ears.
touch you can
tell easily
•
of touch
of
whether some-
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thing
is
hard or
soft or
You have other
rough or smooth.
senses with
which you
perceive things that your eyes and ears
You perceive tastes organs in your mouth and
cannot perceive at with special
all.
smells with special organs in your nose.
Taste and smell are called chemical senses
because
make
it
it is
the chemicals in things that
possible for
you
to taste
and smell
them.
You can feel whether something is hot or cold. You can feel something pressing against your skin.
We
pressure (PRESH-er).
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