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women are more sensative than those of men. We all 
W two sets of these organs, one set at the front of 
the ton gne the other at the back, or near the root. 
matl , ^' W Per ° eiVe WeetneSS and sou ™es 3 
soon overpowers tIie peculiar functi °- 
mllfYf SUffi , dent ,° f a to consider 
myself H to explam the natnre and peculiarities of 
the human gustatory organs; yet, while I leave it to 
the Faculty to assign the causes, I have no hesitation 
in recording facts of every day's experience, and which 
can, at a moment's notice, be brought home to the 
senses of the most ignorant. I will se l ec t one example 
on of hundreds that might be adduced, because it is 
both most S1 mple in itself, and the materials employed 
about it are within every one's reach ; that of tasting 
(and I might say proving and testing) olive, or as it 
is generally called, salad oil ; a substance that in this 
climate ought, in one shape or another, to enter every 
day into the food of every one of ns. Moreover, what 
I am going to say has a S much to do with the grocer 
who purchases, as with the customer, who consumes 
the oil. 
To perform this testing of the goodness or badness 
of salad oil (pure olive oil), it is desirable, when 
possible to dry the tongue well towards the base or 
root with a fine cambric handkerchief for the obvious 
purpose of preventing the fluids of the mouth from 
preventing the oil coming at once in contact with the 
surface of the tongue. Then dip the point of the little 
finger in the oil to be tested, and apply it as far back 
as possible on one, or still better, both sides of the root 
of the tongue. »Having done this, allow the mouth to 
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