Peripheralia: The Fifth Sense
Keywords:
fifth sense, olfactory, emotion, nostalgia
Abstract
I was supervising an intern recently and we were examining a two-week-old baby when the intern noticed me hovering close to the baby’s abdomen and asked me what I was doing. I said I was smelling the baby’s umbilicus. She said she had never seen or heard of anyone doing that before.
Published
2011-01-24
Section
Regulars
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