Show SWEET SCENTED SUBJECTS hippocrates rates and criton ancient ancien physicians prescribed perfumes a medic medicines inos pliny describes a compound ol 01 dried flowers and cepica corres corresponding poud to the rpt of the modern perfumer oddly enough when cholera pre viled in london and paris parts people em aloyed in perfumery factories escaped its ravages at one time in syria a tract of land ten square miler in extent was exclusively clu devoted to tho the production of incense trees greeks of antiquity anointed them selves eles wilh a perau perfumed d substance thrice a day lay sn an that the dell lo loua us odor might never cease this cut am was carried to such a an et extreme that solon enacted a law forbidding the the athenians to use scented mixtures in england a taste for perfume perfumes appears to have been prevalent in day during the life time of din dean swift the store atom of per turners were the resorts of loungers lounger s he lie wrote first issued drori frou pe per r cumers ships a crowd of fashionable fops tops |