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Singularly enough, the bacterium termo and the bacterium commune—to which the fetidity of matters undergoing putrefaction is due—are in themselves harmless.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Apparently they are intoxicated with fetidity, as was Bull when he rolled on the putrid body of a mole.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard