The woman, however, gave full assurance that she had no kind of perfume about her and that her clothes had been frequently changed.

The odor of musk in this case was very perceptible on the arms and other portions of the body, but did not become more powerful by friction.

After continuing for about eight days it grew fainter and nearly vanished before the patient's death.
Speranza relates a similar case.
Complexion .-- Pare states that persons of red hair and freckled complexion have a noxious exhalation; the odor of prussic acid is said to come from dark individuals, while blondes exhale a secretion resembling musk.

Fat persons frequently have an oleaginous smell.
The disorders of the nervous system are said to be associated with peculiar odors.

Fevre says the odor of the sweat of lunatics resembles that of yellow deer or mice, and Knight remarks that the absence of this symptom would enable him to tell whether insanity was feigned or not.