# The Sense of Taste Author: Hollingworth, Harry L. (Harry Levi), 1880-1956; Poffenberger, Albert T. (Albert Theodore), 1885-1977; Dearborn, George V. N., 1869-1938 [Editor] Genre: Category: Science - Biology Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59082 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Sense+of+Taste+Hollingworth&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary THE casual observer would probably feel that any attempt to enumerate and arrange in a logical scheme the infinitude of tastes and flavors would be an impossible task. To him it might seem that nearly everything in the world possessed its own peculiar taste. Such an observer would also be likely to think it impossible and thankless to attempt to reduce to their necessary limits the various kinds of substance of which this infinitude of things is made up. But the chemist would readily be able to show him that the infinitude of substances consisted, as a matter of fact, only of various forms and combinations of less than one hundred “elements,” and that from these elements one could produce... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-taste-59082/chapters/4/index.md)