following diseases have at
different times been described as having peculiar odors,--measles, the
smell of freshly plucked feathers; scarlatina, of bread hot from the
oven; eczema and impetigo, the smell of mold; and rupia, a decidedly
offensive odor.

The hair has peculiar odors, differing in individuals. The hair of the
Chinese is known to have the odor of musk, which cannot be washed away
by the strongest of chemicals. Often the distinctive odor of a female
is really due to the odor of great masses of hair. It is said that
wig-makers simply by the sense of smell can tell whether hair has been
cut from the living head or from combings, as hair loses its odor when
it falls out. In the paroxysms of hysteroepilepsy the hair sometimes
has a specific odor of ozone. Taenia favosa gives to the scalp an odor
resembling that of cat's urine.

Sexual Influence of Odors.--In this connection it may be mentioned that
there is a peculiar form of sexual perversion, called by Binet
"fetichism," in which the subject displays a perverted taste for the
odors of handkerchiefs, shoes, underclothing, and other articles of
raiment worn by the opposite sex. Binet maintains that these articles
play the part of the "fetich" in early theology. It is said that the
favors given by the ladies to the knights in the Middle Ages were not
only tokens of remembrance and appreciation, but sexual excitants as
well. In his remarkable "Osphresiologie," Cloquet calls attention to
the sexual pleasure excited by the odors of flowers, and tells how
Richelieu excited his sexual functions by living in an atmosphere
loaded with these perfumes. In the Orient the harems are perfumed with
intense extracts and flowers, in accordance with the strong belief in
the aphrodisiac effect of odors.

Krafft-Ebing quotes several interesting cases in which the connection
between the olfactory and sexual functions is strikingly verified.

"The case of Henry III shows that contact with a person's perspiration
may be the exciting cause of passionate love. At the betrothal feast of
the King of Navarre and Margaret of Valois he accidentally dried his
face with a garment of Maria of Cleves which was moist with her
perspiration. Although she was the bride of the Prince of Conde, Henry
immediately conceived such a passion for her that he could not resist
it, and, as history shows, made her very unhappy. An analogous instance
is related of Henry IV, whose passion for the beautiful Ga