Show DISEASE DEFINED BY ODOR Sense of Smell Boiled Upon by Experts Ex-perts to Determine Nature of Ailments The acuteness of the sense of smell Is far greater In many of the lowor anImals > mats dogs for example than In man mil they employ It In guiding them to their food In warning them of approaching ap-proaching danger and for other purposes pur-poses says tho Spatula Tho sphere of the susceptibility to various odor Is more urlform and extended In man and tho tense of smell Is capable ol great cultivation hike tho other spe clal Bcnes It may bo cultivated bj Bttcntlou and practice Experts cat discriminate qualities of wines liquors drugs etc Diseases have their char ictorl tlc odors Persons who have visited many different taient asylums for tho Insane recognize recog-nize the same familiar odor of tho insane In-sane It Is not Insano asylums alone but prisons jails workhouses armlet In camp churches schools and nearly every household that have character Ictlc odors It Is when tho insane tho prisoners and tho soldier aro aggregated aggre-gated In largo groups or battalions that their characteristic odor Is recog sized Most diseases have their char acterlstlc odors and by tho exercise ol the sense of smell they could bo utilized In different diagnosis For example fever has a mousy odor rheumatsm has a copious soursmell ing acid sweat A person afflicted with pyaemia has a sweet nauseating breath Tho rank unbearable odor of pus from tho middle ear tells the tale of the decay of osseous tissue In scurvy the odor Is putrid In chronic peritonitis musky In scrofula like stale beer In Intermittent fever like fresh baked brown bread In fever am monlacnl In hysteria like violets 01 pineapple Measles diphtheria typhoid fever epilepsy phthisis etc have characteristic odors |