Word: odore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Bath. First he used a doctor and four nurses as human guinea pigs. They were trained while taking chlorophyll to use an osmoscope (smell measurer) on each other 24 hours after they had taken baths. Sure enough, they found that underarm odor was cut in half, or even abolished, for as long as 18 hours after a dose of chlorophyll. The results were confirmed in experiments with a group of twelve college girls...
...Westcott found that onions present a tricky problem because particles get stuck in the teeth and release volatile oils for hours afterwards. When his college girls took onion juice, which left no particles, chlorophyll greatly reduced the breath odor and sometimes abolished it. The only effective treatment for onion eaters, Dr. Westcott concluded, was to clean the mouth thoroughly and then use a chlorophyll mouthwash or suck a chlorophyll tablet. He found that ordinary bad breath, whether from food, drink, tobacco or an upset stomach, was easily controlled by chlorophyll...
Truffles are underground mushrooms-stonelike, spore-bearing fruit of fungi that live on tree roots. The insects and small animals which distribute truffle spores are attracted by the powerful, penetrating odor. The odor also interests dogs, hogs, goats and gourmets. The truffle has been in high fashion as an accent for royal feasts since the time of Pliny...
Practice Cheese. Truffle dogs need not be imported. Training them is not difficult. Since genuine truffles are expensive ($12 a pound, canned), the trainer may use cheese. He takes bits of ripe, strong Gorgonzola, wraps them in cloth and buries them in the earth. When the odor has seeped through the soil, he leads his dog within range. After many tries, the dog gets the idea and smells out the Gorgonzola. When he digs up the bait, the trainer pats him and feeds him a rewarding biscuit...
...summer, when the truffles bloom underground, the dog is highly skilled at finding such buried treasure. Then he is introduced to a real truffle, either fresh or canned. When the dog's interest has been transferred to the new odor, he leads the hunter to the trufflries. Dr. Rogers believes that the U.S. has enough oak forests rich in truffles to keep many dogs and hunters busy...