brielle is
said to have originated at the instant when, at a ball, he wiped his
brow with her handkerchief."

Krafft-Ebing also says that "one learns from reading the work of Ploss
('Das Weib') that attempts to attract a person of the opposite sex by
means of the perspiration may be discerned in many forms in popular
psychology. In reference to this a custom is remarkable which holds
among the natives of the Philippine Islands when they become engaged.
When it becomes necessary for the engaged pair to separate they
exchange articles of wearing apparel, by means of which each becomes
assured of faithfulness. These objects are carefully preserved,
covered with kisses, and smelled."

The love of perfumes by libertines and prostitutes, as well as sensual
women of the higher classes, is quite marked. Heschl reported a case of
a man of forty-five in whom absence of the olfactory sense was
associated with imperfect development of the genitals; it is also well
known that olfactory hallucinations are frequently associated with
psychoses of an erotic type.

Garnier has recently collected a number of observations of fetichism,
in which he mentions individuals who have taken sexual satisfaction
from the odors of shoes, night-dresses, bonnets, drawers, menstrual
napkins, and other objects of the female toilet. He also mentions
creatures who have gloated over the odors of the blood and excretions
from the bodies of women, and gives instances of fetichism of persons
who have been arrested in the streets of Paris for clipping the long
hair from young girls. There are also on record instances of
homosexual fetichism, a type of disgusting inversion of the sexual
instinct, which, however, it is not in the province of this work to
discuss.

Among animals the influence of the olfactory perceptions on the sexual
sense is unmistakable. According to Krafft Ebing, Althaus shows that
animals of opposite sexes are drawn to each other by means of olfactory
perceptions, and that almost all animals at the time of rutting emit a
very strong odor from their genitals. It is said that the dog is
attracted in this way to the bitch several miles away. An experiment by
Schiff is confirmatory. He extirpated the olfactory nerves of puppies,
and found that as they grew the male was unable to distinguish the
female. Certain animals, such as the musk-ox, civet-cat, and beaver,
possess glands on their sexual organs that secrete materials having a
very s