[42] Fere, _Pathologie des Emotions_, p. 81
[43] J.N. Mackenzie similarly suggests (_Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin_,
No. 82, 1898) that "irritation and congestion of the nasal mucous membrane
precede, or are the excitants of, the olfactory impression that forms the
connecting link between the sense of smell and erethism of the
reproductive organs exhibited in the lower animals."
[44] _Les Odeurs dans les Romans de Zola_, Montpellier, 1889.
[45] Toulouse, _Emile Zola_, pp. 163-165, 173-175.
[46] P.J. Moebius, _Das Pathologische bei Nietzsche_.
[47] Moll has a passage on the sense of smell in the blind, more
especially in sexual respects, _Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis_,
bd. 1, pp. 137 et seq.
[48] See, for instance, his poem, "Love Perfumes all Parts," in which he
declares that "Hands and thighs and legs are all richly aromatical." And
compare the lyrics entitled "A Song to the Maskers," "On Julia's Breath,"
"Upon Julia's Unlacing Herself," "Upon Julia's Sweat," and "To Mistress
Anne Soame."
[49] There are various indications that Goethe was attentive to the
attraction of personal odors; and that he experienced this attraction
himself is shown by the fact that, as he confessed, when he once had to
leave Weimar on an official journey for two days he took a bodice of Frau
von Stein's away in order to carry the scent of her body with him.
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