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Sight, smell, ability to hear, tastes, and touch - as these were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are recognized today. Blindfolding children from delivery? Playing a piano made of live cats? Tobacco use to get rid of drowning? Wearing "flea"-shaded clothes? These activities may seem strange to us, however in the 18th century, they made perfect sense. As often even as we use our senses, we seldom stop to take into account their place ever sold. But conception is not reliant on the body alone. Carolyn Purnell persuasively demonstrates, while our anatomies may well not change dramatically, just how we think about the senses and put them to use has been somewhat different over the age groups. Journeying through the past 300 years, Purnell explores how people used their senses in ways that might shock us now. And perhaps more incredibly, she shows just how many of our own means of life are a legacy of this earlier time.
