EFFECTS OF FLOWER SCENTS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12805, 28 May 1910, Page 4

EFFECTS OF FLOWER SCENTS.

Thero if. no cvidericv to support tho tln-r.ry put iorv.:.r.l that tin- scent of narcissus may cause influenza. But many strange cases are on record regarding the effects of the smell of flowers. •*A foreign oflicor," said a medical ir.au to a London journalist on 13th of March, "one night went to sleep witii a number of bunches of oleander — an evergreen shrub with rod and white -flowers — in his bedroom, ln the morning ho was found dead. Tho pungent smell of the oleander had asphyxiated him. "Less serious is the cnse of a doctor who, after sitting for some time in a room, where there wore several bowls of jasmine, became exceedingly giddy. He removed the flowers, whereupon he was himself again at once. "A niimbcr of oranges in a room has been known to make a man unconscious. 1 know, also, of the case of a man who, going to sleep in a storeroom full of apricots, was cliscovorrtl next day in an UlK'.ttU!.l'U.U_. OOlUlitlflll. and lav for some time in peril of his I life." '