Many eminent medical men have lost their lives while dissecting, simply by putrefactive matter coming in contact with a slight wound or puncture.
Ordinarily meats contain from three million to ten times that number of bacteria per ounce, and such meats as hamburger steak often contain more than a billion putrefactive organisms to the ounce.
Nuts are aseptic, free from putrefactive bacteria and do not readily undergo decay either in the body or outside of it.
The theory of putrefaction and putrefactive organisms.
But it is well to remember that in nature putrefactive ferments must go on to an extent rarely imitated or followed in the laboratory.
But, in a majority of observed cases, a loosening of the living investment of bacterial forms takes place, and simultaneously with this, the access of one or two forms of my putrefactive monads.
The ptomaines are all decomposition products resulting from the putrefactive decay of proteins caused by moulds or bacteria.
We know without a shadow of doubt that all of the bodies enumerated as products of pancreatic digestion are the results of trypsin-proteolysis, and not the products of putrefactive changes.
Their only function in the dairy should be to check fermentative or putrefactive processes outside of milk and so keep the air free from taints.
Sometimes cheese undergoes a putrefactive decomposition in which the texture is profoundly modified and various foul smelling gases are evolved.
These troubles have generally been explained as produced by bacteria of the putrefactive class which find their way into the milk through the introduction of filth and dirt at time of milking.
This poisonous ptomaine has also been demonstrated in milk and other milk products, and is undoubtedly due to the development of various putrefactive bacteria that find their way into the milk.
In very old cheese, undergoingputrefactive changes, especially on the outside, an alkaline reaction may be present, due to the formation of free ammonia.
Where kept for a considerable period at this low temperature, the milk becomes filled with bacteria of the undesirable putrefactive type, the lactic group being unable to form acid in any appreciable amounts.
If the sugar is removed from milk by dialysis, the liquid undergoes putrefactive changes due to the fact that the putrefactive bacteria are able to grow if no acid is produced.
He attributes the production of this toxic effect to the decomposition of the elements in the milk induced by putrefactive forms of bacteria that develop where milk is improperly kept.
Another class of bases of an alkaloidal nature, are termed ptomaines; these differ from the leucomaines, being produced by putrefactive or bacterial agency from dead flesh.
The growth of most bacteria, particularly the putrefactive kinds are hindered or entirely stopped by acids slightly alkaline media are most favourable.
For each variety there is a proper balance between the souring, which interrupts the growth of many kinds of putrefactive bacteria, and the development of the forms which are essential to proper ripening.
A washed-curd cheese will sometimes rot, due to the activity of the putrefactive bacteria, and to the lack of the restraining effect of the lactic acid-forming bacteria.
The liking for highly flavored cheeses of strong odor is a matter of individual preference, but from the chemist's standpoint there is no reason for the statement often made that such cheeses have undergone putrefactive decomposition.
The second indication (that the sinus be kept clean, so as to prevent putrefactive changes) is best carried out by the use of peroxide of hydrogen.
This moist inner layer may be quite thin, but it contains sufficient nutrient to develop putrefactive organisms, so that when the hide is soaked in water it practically falls to pieces.
The origin of the wounds in the bark and cortex, and which extend into the wood and other tissues as the putrefactive and fermentative processes increase, appears to be in some cases at least due to lightning.
Wet rot of potatoes may be due to various fungi, and, in excess of water, to putrefactive bacteria (e.
Many of the bacteria commonly present produce putrefactive changes in the contents of the tract by their metabolic processes.
Experiments with organic material outside the body have amply demonstrated that such putrefactive processes can be checked by certain precautions--such as filtration of air, heat, etc.
Such a disease as puerperal fever, for instance, is simply an expression of the fact that within the living human body there is going on active putrefactive action by which the internal cells are being destroyed.
Although it may be possible that in some instances the ill effects result from metallic poisoning, in a great majority of cases the poisonous substances are formed by putrefactive changes.
In 103 of these outbreaks the meat came from diseased animals, while in only five was there any evidence that putrefactive changes in the meat had taken place.
In this way the flesh from diseased animals and that which has undergone putrefactive changes may be doctored up and sold as reputable articles of diet.
In still other instances the meat may have been taken from diseased animals, or it may have undergone putrefactive changes before the canning.
My experience convinces me that in this country meat poisoning frequently results from putrefactive changes.
Schmidt, after studying several of these epidemics, states the following conclusions: (a) The harmful effects are not due to putrefactive processes.
The essential result in either case is that the commonputrefactive bacteria are prevented from growing, probably by lack of sufficient oxygen and moisture, and thus the decay is prevented.
As a result of these putrefactive changes, the nitrogen products of animal life are broken frequently into compounds as simple as ammonia (NH3), or into compounds which the chemists speak of as nitrites (Fig.
But the exclusion of air, the close packing, and the small amount of moisture appear to prevent the growth of the common putrefactive bacteria, and the silage remains good for a long time.
A putrefactive fermentation is thus set up which softens the gummy substance holding the fibres together.
But in the decomposition that thus occurs through the agency of the putrefactive bacteria it very commonly happens that some of the food material is broken down into compounds too simple for use as plant food.
The closely packed food offers just the same unfavourable condition for the growth of common putrefactive bacteria that we have already seen offered by the hard-pressed cheese, and the bacteria growth is in the same way held in check.
On the other hand, their causal connection with fermentative and putrefactive processes was entirely obscured by the overshadowing weight of the chemist Liebig, who believed that fermentations and putrefactions were simply chemical processes.
The chemical destruction of the food material which results from the action of the putrefactive bacteria is too thorough, and the nitrogen foods are not yet in condition to be used by plants.
But such mechanical means has not been devised, and at present a putrefactive fermentation appears to be the only practical method of separating the fibres.
The force of Liebig's authority and the brilliancy of his expositions led to the wide acceptance of his views and the temporary obscurity of the relation of microscopic organisms to fermentative and putrefactive processes.
Nelson, bacteriologist of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, showed the presence of putrefactive bacteria in almost unbelievable numbers, as will be seen by an inspection of the following table: TABLE VI.
Within twenty-four hours after killing, even though the carcass is kept in an ice box or refrigerater, the whole mass is permeated with putrefactive bacteria.
Meats of all sorts, as found in the market, with the exception of canned meats, abound with putrefactive bacteria to an astonishing degree.
The alteration which the Acid suffers by the putrefactive motion is, in my opinion, the greatest it can undergo, without being entirely destroyed and decomposed, so as to be no longer a Salt.
He must, I submit, bow to the conclusion that the dust-particles are the cause of putrefactive life.
In different stages, moreover, of its fermentative or putrefactive changes, the same infusion may so alter as to be successively taken possession of by different organisms.
His Alpine experience has already made known to him the literally infinite differences existing between different samples of air as regards their capacity for putrefactive infection.
The power of the air as regards putrefactive infection is incessantly changing through natural causes, and we are able to alter it at will.
The proteins which have escaped digestion and absorption in the intestines furnish the best medium for the growth of putrefactive bacteria.
The grave danger in the putrefactivediarrhea is the absorption of the toxic substances which result from bacterial action upon the unabsorbed food material in the small and large intestine.
The diets recommended for use during convalescence from other intestinal disorders may serve here, reducing, however, the allowance of meat, since meat proteins are particularly susceptible to attacks of putrefactive bacteria.
Any accumulation of unabsorbed food in the lower intestines becomes a breeding ground for putrefactive bacteria, the product of whose activity imposes a serious tax upon an already overworked organ.
Under normal conditions, that is, in health, the conditions prevailing in the stomach are very unfavorable to the development of bacteria of the putrefactive type, the gastric juice exhibiting decided germicidal properties.
Milk is, as has already been stated, very susceptible to contamination, and that which is infected with putrefactive bacteria is not fit for food even if the dealer has doctored it with formaldehyde.
A flatus enema containing salts, glycerin, and a few drops of turpentine is also valuable in removing the gas formed by the action of the putrefactive bacteria upon the unabsorbed food mass.
In toxic diarrheas, where the putrefactive bacteria make the use of all but the minimum amount of protein inadvisable, the above method is contraindicated, as it is likewise in cases where vomiting of casein curd is a prominent feature.
All stagnant material which has clogged the bowels and which has been subjected to the activities of putrefactive bacteria must be gotten rid of.
These organisms are more powerful than those of a putrefactive character and inhibit their growth.
Milk is a splendid food for bacteria, and numerous varieties multiply in it exceedingly, and many of these are injurious, producing putrefactive changes which render the milk unwholesome, even poisonous in some cases.
In the second case, the impure surroundings swarm with the germs of many kinds of putrefactive bacteria, and the high temperature assists these to gain the upper hand.
He gave it as his opinion[40] that senility was caused partly by auto-intoxication or by the poison derived fromputrefactive micro-organisms which inhabit the digestive track.
We noted further that substances confined too long in receptacles decompose and generate pathogenic poisons, that is, poisons productive of disease; and that the intestinal reservoirs are no exception to this law of putrefactive changes.
Septicæmia is a similar condition due to the presence of the putrefactive organisms themselves, and hence of their products, or ptomaines, also in the blood.
The bacteria or putrefactive germs belong to Protophytes—the smallest and simplest of all plants, some of them are so small that it requires the highest powers of the microscope to make them visible.
In the great majority of these cases, this is owing to putrefactive changes going on in the cavity of the vagina.
Others say that some fluids submitted to the conditions mentioned, will undergo putrefactive changes, and that, therefore, these experiments of M.
It is very strong in taste and smell, due to putrefactive germs that are added to the milk in its manufacture.
Egg preservation such as is practiced in the United States is the opposite of this and attempts to prevent not only ripening processes and putrefactive changes but any bacterial or other changes that lessen the original quality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "putrefactive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: foul; rotting; saprophytic; septic
