Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells

by Dan McKenzie

Ogle, Wm. Medico-Chir. Trans., Vol. LIII., p. 263.

Bonvier, E. L. The Psychic Life of Insects. Eng. Trans. London. 1922.

In Heyninx’s book there is a good bibliography, but the English reader will find an excellent résumé of recent scientific literature in Osmics, by Mr. J. H. Kenneth, published by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.

It is impossible in the space at my disposal to print a bibliography dealing with the historical aspect of olfaction.

In addition to my debt to books, I am also under deep obligation to Dr. Wyatt Wingrave, Dr. Arnold Renshaw, Mr. Archer Ryland, Mr. F. W. Watkyn-Thomas, and Mr. T. H. Fairbrother, for many valuable hints and criticisms, as well as for much useful information, and I take this opportunity of offering my thanks to them for their kind interest.

INDEX

• Acetone poisoning, Odour of, [84]
• Adsorption of odours, [113]
• Æneid, The, Odour in, [72]
• Albinos, Anosmia of, [116], [126]
• Alcoholism, Odour of, [84]
• Alexander the Great, [77]
• Ambergris, [106]
• Ammonia, [94]
• Animals, Lower, Olfaction in, [21]
• Aniseed, [71]
• Anosmia, [23], [115], [142]
• Anti-demoniac treatment by fumigation, [67]
• Ants, Olfaction in, [28]
• Apoplectick, Balsam of Horstius, [69]
• Aromatics, The, [119]
• Asthma from horses, [93]
• Asafœtida, [71]
• Aura, Olfactory, [91]
• Bacon, Francis, [84]
• Badger, Olfaction in, [37]
• Bat and sound-pictures, [32]
• Bath, The domestic, [18]
• Baudelaire, [51]
• Bay, [73]
• Bazin, Réné, [144]
• Bean-flowers, Fragrance of, [145]
• Beltane fires, [143]
• Bolboceros beetle, [37]
• Books, Smell of, [146]
• Brain, Olfactory Routes in, Unknown, [136]
• Brewer, Anthony, [53]
• Browning, Robert, [71]
• Burton, Robert, [78]
• Cairo, Cholera in, [68]
• Camphor as disinfectant, [70]
• Carminatives, [71]
• Castelli’s theory of vision, [127]
• Cats, Aversion towards, [92]
• Cities and towns, Smells of, [150]
• Civet, [106]
• Collins, Wilkie, [47]
• Colosseum, Perfumes in the, [56]
• Coumarin, [105]
• Creighton, [84]
• Crowd-psychology and Odour, [97]
• Death, Odour of, [84]
• Deite, [104], [117]
• Devil, Odour of the, [63], [73]
• Dickens, Charles, [54], [148]
• Disease, Epidemic, and Stenches, [5], [66]
  • Odours of, [83]
• Disraeli, Benj., [12]
• Dog, The, and the Abominable, [80]
  • Olfaction in the, [34], [87]
  • truffle-hunter, the, [34]
• Dostoievsky, [56]
• Dwelling-houses, Odours of, [148]
• Eau de Cologne, [57]
• Einstein and the ether, [138]
• Ellis, Havelock, [86], [87], [96]
• Equilibration, Vocabulary of, [59]
• Fabre, [25], [29], [36], [92]
  • Olfaction in dogs, [36]
    • insects, [25]
  • on nature of odour, [38]
• Fairbrother, T. H., [120], [132]
• Farington’s Diary, [151]
• Farm, Smells of, [153]
• Favus, Smell of, [84]
• Fischer and Penzoldt, [108]
• Fish, Olfaction in, [32]
• Flavour an odour, [43], [114]
• Flavours, High, [82]
  • compounding of, [101]
• Flowers, Perfumes of, Diffusion of, after rain, [112]
  • and insects, [28]
• Folk-lore, Smell in, [66]
• Forel, Olfaction in insects, [25], [30]
• Fumigation, treatment by, [66]
  • for cholera, in modern times, [68]
• Garlic, [45], [57]
• Geraniol, [105]
• Gladstone, W. E., [90]
• Goethe, [95]
• Gordon, Douglas, and olfaction in badger, [37]
• Hæmorrhage, Odour of, [83]
• Hamilton, Lord Frederick, [151]
• Harte, Bret, [51]
• Hay fever, [93]
• Head, Henry, [130]
• Health, Public, and Olfaction, [1]
• Hearing, End organ of, [98]
  • Exhaustion of, [17]
  • Vocabulary of, [60]
• Hell, Odour of, [73]
• Henning, [119]
• Heyninx, [110], [119]
  • Classification of odours, [103], [124]
  • Undulatory theory of odour, [121]
• History, Smell in, [77]
• Hogarth, [70]
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, and Olfactory memory, [51]
• Homer, [73]
• Homing instinct, [30]
• Hospitals of olden days, of, [83]
• Humboldt, [64]
• Hutchison, [116]
• Hydrocyanic acid, [119], [131], [157]
• Hysteria, Treatment of, by stenches, [71]
• Incense, [51], [53], [56], [68], [72]
• Incubus repelled by aromatics, [74]
• Industries, Malodorous, [14]
• Infra-red light rays, [122], [129]
  • absorption by odorous vapours, [131]
• Insects, Olfaction in, [25]
  • and hygiene, [29]
• Iodoform, [16], [103], [129], [131]
• Ireland, Odours in, [3], [152]
• James I., “Counterblaste,” 142
• Jenner, Edward, [151]
• Kipling, Rudyard, [55]
• Lavender, English, [106]
• Lodge, Sir Oliver, [121]
• London, Smells of, [150]
• Louis XI., [78]
• Louis XIV., [77]
• Love and Olfaction, [85]
• Lubbock, Sir John, [25], [30]
• Macrosmatic animals, [22]
• Memory, Olfactory, [43]
  • Strengthening of, by Odours, [53], [69], [70]
• Mercaptan, [39]
• Meredith, George, [89]
• Microsmatic animals, [22]
• Mignonette, [105]
• Molecular structure of odorous bodies, [117]
• Molecules, Vibration of, [121]
• Montaigne, [53]
• Moths, Olfaction in, [25]
• Mummification by aromatics, [67]
• Musk, [28], [75], [104], [106], [107], [109], [110], [117]
• Nauseous remedies, [70]
• Nephritis, Acute, Smell of, [83]
• Nerve, Fifth Cranial, [94]
  • Olfactory, [23]
• Nitrobenzol, [119]
• Nose, Olfactory Region of, [114]
  • Pigment in, [116]
• Odericus Vitalis, [76]
• Odours, Clashing of, [129]
  • Classifications of, [102]
  • Clinging of, [113]
  • Concentrated, Anosmia for, [110]
  • Diffusion of, [39], [108], [112]
    • Effect of cold on, [112]
  • of Disease, [83]
  • Harmony between, [129]
  • Identification of, [65]
  • Nature of, [38], [98] et seq.
  • Novel, [101]
  • Personal, [76]
  • Physical theory of, [42], [116]
  • of poisonous herbs, [126]
  • Recollection of, [47]
  • Repulsive, [79]
  • in water, [33]
  • Theories of, [98]
    • Chemical, [116], [132]
  • Undulatory theory of, [42], [116], [120]
    • Criticism of, [129]
  • Varieties of, [100]
• Ogle, [116]
• Olfaction. See also Smell.
  • Allusions to, in literature, [51] et seq.
  • and digestion, [136]
  • a primitive sense, [21]
  • Evolution of, [21]
  • in fish, [33]
  • in insects, [25]
  • in the lower animals, [21]
  • in the sex-life, [85]
  • Theories of, [98] et seq.
  • and ventilation, [17], [109]
• Olfactory cells, [23]
  • hairs, [23], [121]
  • memory, [43]
  • organ, [23]
    • of insects, [28]
  • pictures, [140] et seq.
  • pigment, [24], [116], [125]
  • region of nose, [114]
• Onions, effect of, [94] f.n.
• Orientation. See Homing Instinct.
• Paracelsus, [70]
• Paris, Smell of, [151]
• Parker, G. H., [100], [104], [108]
• Pawlow, [136]
• Peppermint, [71]
• Perfumes, Classification of, [103]
  • New varieties of, [107]
  • Sources of, [105]
• Pigment, Olfactory, [24], [125]
• Pinewood, Odour of burning, [143]
• Plague, Sweet smell of, [84]
• Poncelet, P. P., [59]
• Queen Elizabeth, [3]
• Reality, Objective, [137]
• Religion, Smell in, [72]
• Remedies, Nauseous, [70]
  • Olfactory, [66]
• Rheumatism, Acute, Acid smell of, [83]
• Ribot and olfactory memory, [48], [50]
• Rimmel, Classification of odours, [103]
• Roberts, Lord, and cats, [92]
• Rohmer, Sax, [74]
• Rose perfume, [57], [105]
  • and exhaustion, [16]
• Roses, Attar of, [105]
• Rousseau, [100], [141]
• Sacrifice, Savour of, [72]
• Saints, Odour of the, [74]
• Saintsbury, George, [103]
• Salerno, Teaching of, on garlic, [47]
• Salmon’s Dispensatory, Fumigation in, [68]
• Sandal-wood, [113]
• Scatol, [16], [80]
• Scott, Sir Walter, [67]
• Sea, Smell of, [144]
• Sea-anemone, Olfactory cells of, [24]
• Sensation, Nature of, [134]
  • Tactile. See Touch.
• Sensory end-organ, Specific reaction of, [130]
• Shakespeare, [52], [86]–89
• Shelley, [47]
• Shops, Smell of, [149]
• Sinistrari of Ameno, [74]
• Sins, Odour of the, [74]
• Small-pox, Smell of, [83]
• Smell and the Emotions, [91], [95], [142] et seq.
  • in Folk-Lore, Religion, and History, [66]
  • and the Personality, [74], [87], [141]
  • Exhaustibility of, [15], [133]
  • Sensation of, [134]
  • Sense of, Acuteness of, in man, [141]
    • Cultivation of, [140]
    • in old age, [82], [126]
    • in uncivilised man, [64]
    • mystery of, [139]
    • Reaction-time of, [111]
  • Sense Organ of, [23], [101], [107]
    • Delicacy of, [107]
    • Potential responsiveness of, [101]
  • and Speech, [59]
  • Subtlety of, in man, [44], [56]
  • Vocabulary of, Emotional, [61]
    • Etymology of, [61] et seq.
• Smith, Elliot, [72]
• Spectrum analysis of odours, [123]
• Speech and smell, [59]
• Spiders, Aversion towards, [92]
• Stenches a nuisance in law, [12]
  • in Cologne, [8]
  • in the East, [10]
  • in Edinburgh, [11]
  • in France, [9]
  • in London, [11], [13]
  • in Lucerne, [8]
  • Industrial, [14]
• Subconsciousness, Smell and the, [44], [56], [64], [65], [79], [91], [95], [139]
• Sulphur compounds, Organic, [15]
• Taste and smell contrasted, [43]
  • Exhaustion of, [17]
  • Vocabulary of, [60]
• Tasting wine with closed eyes, [115]
• Terminology, Olfactory, Scanty, [59] et seq.
• Theatre, The, Perfumes in, [56]
• Theuriet, André, [148]
• Tobacco, Effect of, on olfactory sense, [142]
• Touch, Vocabulary of, [60]
• Truffle-hunter, The, [36]
• Tyndall, [130]
• Typhus fever, Odour of, [83]
• Ultra-violet light rays, [122]
  • absorbed by odorous bodies, [122]
• Unconscious, The. See Subconsciousness.
• Valerian, [71], [115]
• Vanillin, [39]
• Ventilation and sense of smell, [17], [109]
• Vervain, [80]
• Violets, [110]
• Vision, End organ of, [98]
  • Vocabulary of, [59]
• Vocabulary of Smell, Scanty, [59] et seq.
• Volatility and odours, [113]
• Walking-stick, Medical, [70]
• Watkyn-Thomas, F. W., [53]
• Wilkes, John, [90]
• Whitman, Walt, [77]
• Zebethum occidentale, [71]
• Zwaardemaker, [114]
  • Classification of odours, [102]
  • Olfactometer, [107]

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