Ford mentions the case of a captain who in order to soothe a
child's cries put it to his breast, and who subsequently
developed a full supply of milk. He also quotes an instance of a
man suckling his own children, and mentions a negro boy of
fourteen who secreted milk in one breast. Hornor and Pulido y
Fernandez also mention similar instances of gynecomazia.
Human Odors.--Curious as it may seem, each individual as well as
each species is in life enveloped with an odor peculiarly its
own, due to its exhaled breath, its excretions, and principally
to its insensible perspiration. The faculty of recognizing an
odor in different individuals, although more developed in savage
tribes, is by no means unknown in civilized society. Fournier
quotes the instance of a young man who, like a dog, could smell
the enemy by scent, and who by smell alone recognized his own
wife from other persons.
Fournier also mentions a French woman, an inhabitant of Naples,
who had an extreme supersensitiveness of smell. The slightest
odor was to her intolerable; sometimes she could not tolerate the
presence of certain individuals. She could tell in a numerous
circle which women were menstruating. This woman could not sleep
in a bed which any one else had made, and for this reason
discharged her maid, preparing her own toilet and her sleeping
apartments.
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