The Scent of Disease

5 minute snippets. Sorry no time to cite all sources atm!

You smell or you die.

Urinalysis pre 50’s used to be doctor smells or tastes your pee.

Oscar the cat predicts death in Rhode Island convalescent home, likely by smell. Oscar (therapy cat) - Wikipedia

Patrick Suskind’s novel Perfume is about a serial murderer with no perceptible body odor, who got off on the perfume of death. Perfume (novel) - Wikipedia

Maybe I shouldn’t have ended on that one.