erspiration
that despite all treatment he had to finally resign his commission.

In lethargy and catalepsy the perspiration very often has a cadaverous
odor, which has probably occasionally led to a mistaken diagnosis of
death. Schaper and de Meara speak of persons having a cadaveric odor
during their entire life.

Various ingesta readily give evidence of themselves by their influence
upon the breath. It has been remarked that the breath of individuals
who have recently performed a prolonged necropsy smells for some hours
of the odor of the cadaver. Such things as copaiba, cubebs, sandalwood,
alcohol, coffee, etc., have their recognizable fragrance. There is an
instance of a young woman taking Fowler's solution who had periodic
offensive axillary sweats that ceased when the medicine was
discontinued.

Henry of Navarre was a victim of bromidrosis; proximity to him was
insufferable to his courtiers and mistresses, who said that his odor
was like that of carrion. Tallemant says that when his wife, Marie de
Medicis, approached the bridal night with him she perfumed her
apartments and her person with the essences of the flowers of her
country in order that she might be spared the disgusting odor of her
spouse. Some persons are afflicted with an excessive perspiration of
the feet which often takes a disgusting odor. The inguinoscrotal and
inguinovulvar perspirations have an aromatic odor like that of the
genitals of either sex.

During menstruation, hyperidrosis of the axillae diffuses an aromatic
odor similar to that of acids or chloroform, and in suppression of
menses, according to the Ephemerides, the odor is as of hops.

Odors of Disease.--The various diseases have their own peculiar odors.
The "hospital odor," so well known, is essentially variable in
character and chiefly due to an aggregation of cutaneous exhalations.
The wards containing women and children are perfumed with butyric acid,
while those containing men are influenced by the presence of alkalies
like ammonia.

Gout, icterus, and even cholera (Drasch and Porker) have their own
odors. Older observers, confirmed by Doppner, say that all the
plague-patients at Vetlianka diffused an odor of honey. In diabetes
there is a marked odor of apples. The sweat in dysentery unmistakably
bears the odor of the dejecta. Behier calls the odor of typhoid that of
the blood, and Berard says that it attracts flies even before death.
Typhus has a mouse-like odor, and the