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, “Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind”. 1812.
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Benjamin Rush, the "Father of American Psychiatry" (and a signor of the US Declaration of Independence) relates learning about odours as a cause of mental illness at the beginning of the 19th Century, in Scotland, France and Philadelphia.

