nothing but vegetables, are intensely nauseated by
the odors of European tables, and for this reason they are incapable of
serving as dining-room servants.

Fabricius Hildanus mentions a person who fainted from the odor of
vinegar. The Ephemerides contains an instance of a soldier who fell
insensible from the odor of a peony. Wagner knew a man who was made ill
by the odor of bouillon of crabs. The odors of blood, meat, and fat are
repugnant to herbivorous animals. It is a well-known fact that horses
detest the odor of blood.

Schneider, the father of rhinology, mentions a woman in whom the odor
of orange-flowers produced syncope. Odier has known a woman who was
affected with aphonia whenever exposed to the odor of musk, but who
immediately recovered after taking a cold bath. Dejean has mentioned a
man who could not tolerate an atmosphere of cherries. Highmore knew a
man in whom the slightest smell of musk caused headache followed by
epistaxis. Lanzonius gives an account of a valiant soldier who could
neither bear the sight nor smell of an ordinary pink. There is an
instance on record in which the odor coming from a walnut tree excited
epilepsy. It is said that one of the secretaries of Francis I was
forced to stop his nostrils with bread if apples were on the table. He
would faint if one was held near his nose Schenck says that the noble
family of Fystates in Aquitaine had a similar peculiarity--an innate
hatred of apples. Bruyerinus knew a girl of sixteen who could not bear
the smell of bread, the slightest particle of which she would detect by
its odor. She lived almost entirely on milk. Bierling mentions an
antipathy to the smell of musk, and there is a case on record in which
it caused convulsions. Boerhaave bears witness that the odor of cheese
caused nasal hemorrhage. Whytt mentions an instance in which tobacco
became repugnant to a woman each time she conceived, but after delivery
this aversion changed to almost an appetite for tobacco fumes.
Panaroli mentions an instance of sickness caused by the smell of
sassafras, and there is also a record of a person who fell helpless at
the smell of cinnamon. Wagner had a patient who detested the odor of
citron. Ignorant of this repugnance, he prescribed a potion in which
there was water of balm-mint, of an odor resembling citron. As soon as
the patient took the first dose he became greatly agitated and much
nauseated, and this did not cease until Wagner repressed the ba