en noticed several
days, but was thought to be due to a bag of musk put purposely into the
bed to overpower other bad smells. The woman, however, gave full
assurance that she had no kind of perfume about her and that her
clothes had been frequently changed. The odor of musk in this case was
very perceptible on the arms and other portions of the body, but did
not become more powerful by friction. After continuing for about eight
days it grew fainter and nearly vanished before the patient's death.
Speranza relates a similar case.

Complexion.--Pare states that persons of red hair and freckled
complexion have a noxious exhalation; the odor of prussic acid is said
to come from dark individuals, while blondes exhale a secretion
resembling musk. Fat persons frequently have an oleaginous smell.

The disorders of the nervous system are said to be associated with
peculiar odors. Fevre says the odor of the sweat of lunatics resembles
that of yellow deer or mice, and Knight remarks that the absence of
this symptom would enable him to tell whether insanity was feigned or
not. Burrows declares that in the absence of further evidence he would
not hesitate to pronounce a person insane if he could perceive certain
associate odors. Sir William Gull and others are credited with
asserting that they could detect syphilis by smell. Weir Mitchell has
observed that in lesions of nerves the corresponding cutaneous area
exhaled the odor of stagnant water. Hammond refers to three cases under
his notice in which specific odors were the results of affections of
the nervous system. One of these cases was a young woman of hysterical
tendencies who exhaled the odor of violets, which pervaded her
apartments. This odor was given off the left half of the chest only and
could be obtained concentrated by collecting the perspiration on a
handkerchief, heating it with four ounces of spirit, and distilling the
remaining mixture. The administration of the salicylate of soda
modified in degree this violaceous odor. Hammond also speaks of a young
lady subject to chorea whose insensible perspiration had an odor of
pineapples; a hypochondriac gentleman under his care smelled of
violets. In this connection he mentions a young woman who, when
suffering from intense sick headache, exhaled an odor resembling that
of Limburger cheese.

Barbier met a case of disordered innervation in a captain of infantry,
the upper half of whose body was subject to such offensive p