Foot odour

Brevibacterium linens is ubiquitously present, and populates also the human skin, where it causes e.g. foot odour. It is contained in the reddish smear coat ofRemoudou and other Belgian cheeses. The oxidation of its red pigment leads to a tremendous bathochromic shift (about 100 nm). 

Water that drops down a foot or two from the outlet weir can cause the emission of odourous gases from the sewage. This is usually a problem only after primary sedimentation. 

Features Root whitish, cylindrical, about one foot long by three-quarters of an inch through. Taste and odour pungent, irritant, mustard-like. 

Features This familiar evergreen is a true parasite, receiving no nourishment from the soil, nor even from the decaying bark. The leaves are obtuse lance-shaped, broader towards the end, sessile, and grow from a smooth-jointed stem about a foot high. The flower-heads are yellowish and the berries white. The plant is tasteless and without odour. 

Features This is the common clover of the field, long cultivated by the farmer, and is found growing to a height of one foot or more. The leaves, composed of three leaflets, grow on alternate sides of the stem. The leaflets themselves are broad, oval, pointed, and frequently show a white spot. The stem is hairy and erect, and the red (or, perhaps, purplish-pink) flower-heads (the part of the plant employed in herbal practice) are formed by a large number of separate blossoms at the end of a flower stalk. Both taste and odour are agreeable. 

Actions and Uses.—Internally —In excessive doses, irritant poison in medicinal doses it is occasionally employed as an anthelmintic also given to dogs to allay vomition. Externally —Caustic, disinfectant, astringent, and styptic applied to cancerous sores and ulcers which emit a fetid odour, e. g, canker and thrush in the foot of the horse, and foot-rot in sheep. It modifies suppuration and fadlitates cicatrization when applied to wounds. Said... 

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