He suffered greatly from the abominable effluvia, and
for thirty-six years afterward he remained completely deprived of
the sense of smell.
In a discussion upon anosmia before the Medico-Chirurgical
Association of London, January 25, 1870, there was an anosmic
patient mentioned who was very fond of the bouquet of moselle,
and Carter mentioned that he knew a man who had lost both the
senses of taste and smell, but who claimed that he enjoyed
putrescent meat. Leared spoke of a case in an epileptic affected
with loss of taste and smell, and whose paroxysms were always
preceded by an odor of peach-blossoms.
Hyperosmia is an increase in the perception of smell, which
rarely occurs in persons other than the hysteric and insane. It
may be cultivated as a compensatory process, as in the blind, or
those engaged in particular pursuits, such as tea-tasting.
Parosmia is a rare condition, most often a symptom of hysteria or
neurasthenia, in which everything smells of a similar, peculiar,
offensive odor. Hallucinations of odor are sometimes noticed in
the insane. They form most obstinate cases, when the
hallucination gives rise to imaginary disagreeable, personal
odors.
Perversion of the tactile sense, or wrong reference to the
sensation of pain, has occasionally been noticed.
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