ory is full of such instances. We
are told by Plutarch that Alexander the Great exhaled an odor similar
to that of violet flowers, and his undergarments always smelled of this
natural perfume. It is said that Cujas offered a particular analogy to
this. On the contrary, there are certain persons spoken of who exhaled
a sulphurous odor. Martial said that Thais was an example of the class
of people whose odor was insupportable. Schmidt has inserted in the
Ephemerides an account of a journeyman saddler, twenty-three years of
age, of rather robust constitution, whose hands exhaled a smell of
sulphur so powerful and penetrating as to rapidly fill any room in
which he happened to be. Rayer was once consulted by a valet-de-chambre
who could never keep a place in consequence of the odor he left behind
him in the rooms in which he worked.

Hammond is quoted with saying that when the blessed Venturni of
Bergamons officiated at the altar people struggled to come near him in
order to enjoy the odor he exhaled. It was said that St. Francis de
Paul, after he had subjected himself to frequent disciplinary
inflictions, including a fast of thirty-eight to forty days, exhaled a
most sensible and delicious odor. Hammond attributes the peculiar odors
of the saints of earlier days to neglect of washing and, in a measure,
to affections of the nervous system. It may be added that these odors
were augmented by aromatics, incense, etc., artificially applied. In
more modern times Malherbe and Haller were said to diffuse from their
bodies the agreeable odor of musk. These "human flowers," to use
Goethe's expression, are more highly perfumed in Southern latitudes.

Modifying Causes.--According to Brieude, sex, age, climate, habits,
ailments, the passions, the emotions, and the occupations modify the
difference in the humors exhaled, resulting in necessarily different
odors. Nursing infants have a peculiar sourish smell, caused by the
butyric acid of the milk, while bottle-fed children smell like strong
butter. After being weaned the odors of the babies become less decided.
Boys when they reach puberty exhibit peculiar odors which are similar
to those of animals when in heat. These odors are leading symptoms of
what Borden calls "seminal fever" and are more strongly marked in those
of a voluptuous nature. They are said to be caused by the absorption of
spermatic fluid into the circulation and its subsequent elimination by
the skin. This peculiar