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L. D. Kastenbine

A professor of chemistry at the Louisville College of Pharmacy whose 1876 analysis in the Louisville Medical News proposed that vultures disgorging a shared carrion meal in flight, a documented behaviour, best accounted for the mixed lung, muscle, and connective tissue recovered from the Kentucky meat shower.

In Kentucky, United States

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  • L. D. Kastenbine investigated Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876 — Kastenbine's 1876 Louisville Medical News analysis of a sample's mixed tissue types concluded that a flock of vultures regurgitating a shared meal in flight was the only mechanism consistent with the evidence.

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  • L. D. Kastenbine is located in Kentucky.

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