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this connection he mentions a young woman who, when suffering
from intense sick headache, exhaled an odor resembling that of
Limburger cheese.
Barbier met a case of disordered innervation in a captain of
infantry, the upper half of whose body was subject to such
offensive perspiration 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.
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