Book

Smell Detectives

An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

Melanie A. Kiechle

2017

University of Washington Press

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Q&A

In 19th-Century America, Fighting Disease Meant Battling Bad Smells

The history of unpleasant odor, or miasma, has unexpected relevance in the time of COVID-19.

by Melanie A. Kiechle, Daniela Blei via Atlas Obscura on April 8, 2020
Book Review

If You Smell Something, Say Something

City dwellers of the 19th century were dogged by a foul terror: miasma.

by Conevery Bolton Valencius via Distillations on July 31, 2018

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