putrefaction

• “He was looking at it as though it were an animal, days dead and far gone in putrefaction, that had been malevolently dumped on a pristine altar consecrated to solemn rituals and tended to by votaries of an elite cult.”

  Florence of Arabia

• “He (that is, man) as a rotten thing, the principle of whose putrefaction is in itself, consumes, even like a moth-eaten garment, which becomes continually worse and worse.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

• “Man is not pure for he is a worm, hatched in putrefaction, and therefore odious to God.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

• “He writes: "Nature never multiplies anything, except in either one or the other of these two ways: either by decay, which we call putrefaction, or, in the case of animate creatures, by propagation.”

  Bygone Beliefs

• “Destruction supervenes when the determined gets the better of the determining by the help of the environment (though in a special sense the word putrefaction is applied to partial destruction, when”

  Meteorology

• “A slight quantity of air, however, is sufficient for putrefaction, which is a powerful deoxydizing process that extracts oxygen even from the roots of plants.”

  Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles

• “Reply Obj. 2: Christ's body was a subject of corruption according to the condition of its passible nature, but not as to the deserving cause of putrefaction, which is sin: but the Divine power preserved”

  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition

• “If the fermentation is of vegetables or fruit, the toxins are irritating, stimulating and enervating, but not so dangerous or destructive to organic life as putrefaction, which is a fermentation set up in nitrogenous matter -- protein-bearing foods, but particularly animal foods.”

  How and When to Be Your Own Doctor

• “We have already said that we believe that they are nothing but the ordinary vibrios of putrefaction, reduced to a state of extreme tenuity by the special conditions of nutrition involved in the fermentable medium used; in a word, we think that the fermentation in question might be called putrefaction of tartrate of lime.”

  The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)

• “He proved, also, by an exhaustive series of experiments, that what is called putrefaction of animal matter is the result of the combined work of the _ærobics_ and the _anærobics_, which reduce that part not taken up by oxygen to dead organic matter, ready in its turn to form food for living things.”

  Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

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