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The Delusions Of Smell

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
December
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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The delusions of amell are hardiy ever isolated; they accompany those of bearing, taste, sigbt and touch, and are lesa frequant thau the letter. Insane people, who are affected by them, complain of being haunted by fetid emanations, or congratúlate theniselves on inhaling the most delicious perfumes. Lelut mentions tha case of a woman, an inmate of la Salpotriere, who fanoied that she oonstautly perceived a tïightful stench proceeding from the decay of bodies she iuiagiued buried in the courts ot that institution. Impressions of the kind are usually very annoying. Brierre de Buisluont relates the account of a woruan affected by disorder of all her sanses. Whenever she Baw a well-drossed lady passing, abe suielt the odor of ïnusk, which was intolerable to her. If it were a man, she was distressingly affected by the smell of tobáceo, though 6he was aware that those secuta existed only in her imagination. CapelJini mentions that a woiuun, who declared that she could not bear the smell of a rose, was quite ill when one of her frieuds carne in wearing one, though th unluuky flower was only artifioial.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus