Listerine.
What??!! A white person made an important contribution to the world that helps whites and all minorities as well?? That can’t be true! Where’s the white-shamers when you need them!
That was very interesting.
Thank you for posting.
I work in an emergency department where I always have my trusty pair of Lister bandage scissors in my pocket.
Ignasz Semmelweis came to a similar conclusion a few years earlier, but apparently he was an unpleasant SOB so his advice, though effective, was generally ignored.
***At the time,(1852) the medical community was unaware of the existence of germs and didn’t know how infectious diseases were passed.***
But I have it on good authority, (FACEBOOK) that the early explorers knew all about such nasties and purposefully infected the Indians and killed them all off with blankets and other infected goods because white men are just no dam good!
Sarc/off
***“unmistakable smell of rotting flesh” these days would be at a slaughterhouse. ***
Today’s slaughterhouses are extremely clean, but there is the smell of fresh meat, nothing rotten.