Unilateral gustatory flushing in a teenager

Abstract

Unilateral gustatory flushing (also known as Frey syndrome) is presumed to be caused by injury to the autonomic component of the auriculotemporal nerve. It is important to distinguish the symptoms from those of food-induced allergy to avoid unnecessary investigation. The signs of Frey syndrome can persist for several years and can cause patients to feel self-conscious.

Ivory and Whiteness

“…10 Batchelor traces whiteness in this form in writing about art and architecture from Winckelmann through Walter Pater to Le Corbusier. 11 He quotes the following from the artist and architect Theo van Doesburg (d. 1931) :…”

“…WHITE pure white. 12 From these texts, and from further examples in philosophy and film, Batchelor identifies the ideological significance that whiteness carries in western culture: whiteness as colorlessness has been treated as transparent, pure, abstract, detached, and disinterested. It has been identified with reason, order, the mind, and the absolute: in sum, all of the good things.…”

“…Instead, the scholarship in general demonstrates another feature of Batchelor's conception of whiteness: the ability to not see color, even when it is or was originally there. 22 The major exception to the general neglect of color in the scholarship on medieval ivories is Carolyn Connor's work from the 1990s on color specifically on late antique and Byzantine ivories. 23 Connor reports on her close examination of one hundred such ivories in various museums and her finding that ninety-five of them had at least traces of color, while those that did not appeared to have been bleached or otherwise cleaned.…”