The cup of sugar comment seems extreme to me, also - and pretty much impossible. Anyway, this is what I found and as I only Google'd it I cannot verify how accurate it is.

Disease: Odor
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Typhoid: Freshly baked brown bread
Diphtheria: Sweet
Smallpox: Stench (a foul odor)
Yellow fever: Butcher shop
Scurvy: Putrid (a rotten odor)
Phenylketonuria: Musty; sweaty locker room
Metabolic disorders Maple syrup
Diabetic ketosis: Fruity aroma; decomposing apples"

University of Washington: The Lost Medical Art of Smelling
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/news710.html



Tuberculosis produces a body odor that smells like stale beer.
Vitamin C deficiency, called scurvy, causes a putrid odor.
Burns have a musty, grape-like odor.
Ketoacidosis, which may result from diabetes, smells like old apples.
Liver failure smells like rotten eggs.
Kidney failure has the smell of ammonia."

WPTZ Health: The good side of body odor
http://wptz-tvhealth.ip2m.com/index....Site_Cat_ID=13