The writing of a history of a particular sense is both an original and risky undertaking. Its diachronic implementation confronts the historian with huge, though not necessarily insurmountable, problems. There may be certain conceptual difficulties, but not the least of these is the lack of written records.
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Jütte, R. (2012). The sense of smell in historical perspective. In Sensory Perception: Mind and Matter (pp. 313–332). Springer-Verlag Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99751-2_18
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