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The ideas of corruption are closely connected with those of putrescency; and putrescency has ever been considered the chief source and focus of pestilential maladies.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

They set off as soon as it was light, that they might, if possible, reach the Mission before putrescency had discolored the body of the infant.

From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by Fowler, William Worthington

Most of them, as may be supposed, were in a state of complete putrescency; of some, the bones only remained, though a few were in good preservation.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

When these evacuations did not take place, the humour became putrid, and putrescency was Localiter or Emunctor labiter—as the humours were either retained or excreted.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)