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That Cowboy Stench

by | Nov 1, 2008 | Inside History

Frontier cattle drovers were definitely hygienically-challenged.
Having worked in the emergency room as a young physician throughout the 1970s, I learned the difference between human “sweat” and “stench,” as these apply to the presentation of different patients under a wide variety of circumstances. I concluded that “sweat is fine.” “Stench” is another matter. The differentiation between these two pr


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