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They dressed fashionably—almost gaudily—except for their distinctly grimy shirts. They walked around with cigars hanging from their mouths: an indulgence, but one that was a necessity for masking the smell of decay that permeated their clothes after time spent in the dissection room.
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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