Skin infections and wrestling For every form of contagious infection, there is a readily available form of medication that can be purchased at any pharmacy. It is a commonly held belief among wrestlers, however, that these ointments do not treat symptoms Sometimes wrestlers who don’t want to report an infection to their coach will resort to unusual and unhealthy treatments. Included among these ‘home remedies’ are nail polish remover, bleach, salt, and vinegar solutions, which are used to either suffocate or burn the infection, often leaving extensive scars. The remedies, while sometimes successful, are not guaranteed to actually kill the infection, often only eliminating
Science of smells Science of smells The odorology or science of smells is a technology used mainly in criminology for judicial identification. The technology is based on the analysis of smells by dogs notably to merge the criminals or to identify the smell of objects (explosives, drugs). Olfaction of dogs is used for a long time by the police (location of drug, of explosives, of weapon, body of missing persons, criminals' identification) or the services of rescue (bodies buried under avalanches). From 1910, a dog handler Friedo Schmidt describes in his book Verbrecherspur und Polizeihund («The criminal links and the police dog») how