Cairo’s military hospitals had a notoriously bad smell known as the Muristan smell

Evidence

Among the various complaints about the performance of the hospitals in Cairo were those concerning their smell, a stagnant, stinking smell “known as the smell of the Muristan [the hospital smell]”: S/3/122/5 p. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1185

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