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26. M. Martin, A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, 2nd ed (London,
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27. Makey, ‘Edinburgh’, p. 201; Steven, Parish Life, pp. 125–6.
28. Steven, Parish Life, p. 70.
29. E. P. Dennison, G. Des Brisay and H. Lesley Diack, ‘Health in the two towns’,
in E. P. Dennison, D. Ditchburn and M. Lynch (eds), Aberdeen Before 1800: A
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30. Jenner, ‘Civilization and deodorization?’, p. 139.
31. Johnson, A Journey, p. 45; Boswell, Journal of a Tour, p. 167.
32. Johnson, A Journey, pp. 24, 84; see also, Hume Brown (ed.), Early Travellers, p. 276.
33. R. Genders, A History of Scent (London, 1972), p. 144.
34. Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen 1643–1747 (Scottish
Burgh Records Society Edinburgh, 1872), p. 143; pigs were frequently a nuisance
in English towns as well, see E. Cockayne, Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in
England 1600–1770 (New Haven, CT, 2007), pp. 18–19, 107, 193.
35. Garrioch, ‘Sounds of the city’, p. 7.
36. Hume Brown (ed.), Early Travellers, p. 135.
37. Pennant, Tour in Scotland, pp. 158, 190.
38. Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands, p. 103.
39. For books containing recipes for perfume see, for example, one owned by the
eighteenth-century countesses of Strathmore in Dundee University Archive,
Glamis, vol. 245.
40. W. Creech, Letters Addressed to Sir John Sinclair (Edinburgh, 1793), p. 17.
41. C. Classen, Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures
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42. Steven, Parish Life, p. 97.
43. Pennant, Tour in Scotland, p. 145.
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Scotland: Care and Teaching at the Royal Infi rmary of Edinburgh (Cambridge, 1986),
pp. 8, 10.
45. R. Palmer, ‘In bad odour: smell and its signifi cance in medicine from antiquity to
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46. Pennant, Tour in Scotland, p. 175; see also, Martin, A Description, pp. 202, 232.
47. R. Boyle, The General History of the Air (London, 1692), p. 239; see also, Hume
Brown (ed.), Early Travellers, pp. 82–3.
48. Classen, Worlds of Sense, p. 21.
49. Marwick, The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland, p. 130.
50. See, for example, National Archives of Scotland (NAS), CH12/23/1094, Records
of the Episcopal Church of Scotland (25 August 1759).
51. Marshall, The Life and Times of Leith, p. 45; H. Kelsall and K. Kelsall, Scottish
Lifestyle 300 Years Ago (Aberdeen, 1993), pp. 195–6.
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