Part of the protein which escapes digestion will reach the colon, where it acts as the substrate for putrefying bacteria. |
Below the military courtyard there is a reservoir, the walls of which have retained a reddish plaster used to stop the water putrefying. |
They feed until the body is reduced to a putrefying mass, and then pupate within the shell. |
Scattered along the road from the capital were enough putrefying corpses to equip a west African military band. |
And putrefying matter washed out due to rains will meet this filtering material and stay there allowing only water to pass through. |
This protracted process resulted in a backlog of bodies that were often putrefying by the time they were cremated. |