The tensions between the private nose and the public eye,,,

The tensions between the private nose and the public eye,,, ;

The olfactory intolerance of the odor of the other, prefigured the emergence of the individual bed, its detachment from architecture and its articulation as a discrete element in the space of bedroom...

The individual tomb is more narrowly a product of the eighteenth century and therefore more explicitly related to public health guidelines for the reorganization of urban space. ; "To each his cesspool and to each his grave"

The olfactory/excremental factors that transformed body, bed, and tomb into distinct spatial units were operative at the level of the building and the city.