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Update 2: BoingBoing reader Will says, "Naming the album 'Beak of Putrefaction' is probably also a nod to the grindcore band Carcass and their first album called 'Reek of Putrefaction."
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It is evidence in favor of this view that in 1843, Müller published Helmholtz's first essay, “On the Nature of Fermentation and Putrefaction,” written in support of Justus von Liebig's anti-vitalist arguments against spontaneous generation, in his own journal, Müller's Archiv.
Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008
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Rum at forty shillings a Gallon and bad Water, will never do, in this hot Climate in summer where Acid Liquors are necessary against Putrefaction.
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Devastation and Putrefaction ordered up the Hamocks &c.
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Putrefaction of dead bodies threatens the health of the whole region.
The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin James Herbert Walker
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Putrefaction attacks all kinds of vegetable tissue, and if this
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Putrefaction will start at 50°, so that a pantry or closet where food is kept should have a temperature at least as low as that.
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Putrefaction is usually caused by imperfect sealing.
School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
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Then followed _Putrefaction_, necessary for the germination of the seed which had been produced by calcination, dissolution, and conjunction.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir
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Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air in relation to Putrefaction and Infection.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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