SKETCHER.

Lake County Press, Issue 2159, 7 March 1907, Page 7

SKETCHER.

THE SCENT OF MAN. Tho scent of rran has been tho subject of a number of experiments by Dr. A. Jip.thc, who gives his results in the new number of the • Archiv der gesamten Physiologic. Dr. Betho, in one particular, extends tho J'ager theory oven further than its original projector ventured to do, and affirms that every human individu-il has his or hor own peculiar scent. Not only a dog, says he, but a man gifted with au exceptional nasal sensibility, can detect a man by his distinct and individual smell. The doctor made au experiment with a person thus exceptionally gifted. Ho Drought this wonderful 'smeller' with bandaged eyes into a room where more than 20 persons of his acquaintance had been collected, and the 'smoller' detected and named every one of them correctly, by deliberately putting his noso to each in turn: The 'human scent,' according to Dr, L'erthe, is not born with ue, but is acquired. Professor Jagor's theory, as many v/ill be aware, is that tho personal scent of a man has an ethical value, and ho t;.kc-s certain texts of the Old Testament to b i actually as well as figuratively true. Dr. Bethe is not inclined to carry his operations oeyond tho scientific into tho moral province. Ho believes that there is a character*?tic 'family smell,' of which each member of a family more or less partakc3, and ffhioh they do not quite lof-e oven when thoy are separated from one another * by continents or oceans.' Meanwhiio, he warns against coniiug to hasty conclusions upon a matter which is

still only in a tentative etage, eapealally as a man's individual scent is so very much conditioned by Lin social ciroumstances and by his personal habits and maonjr of life.