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Retardation of the putrefactive process has been noticed in bodies some years under water.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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That they did not bury any of their dead, and the reckless slaughter they perpetrated, point also to an entire ignorance of the putrefactive process.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
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BACTERIA (the plural of bacterium).-Exceedinglyminute, spherical, oblong, or cylindrical cells which are concerned in putrefactive processes.
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy