Temperatures dropped to 5 C ( 41 F ) overnight in the villages, but then soared to 28 C ( 84 F ), raising concern that bodies under the rubble might begin putrefying and spread disease.
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"This place has saved me, " said 24-year-old Sashi Sardar as he changed the bandages around the putrefying leprosy ulcers of a middle-aged woman's right foot.
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Few mourners were on the shore, covered with the pungent odor of disinfectant and the occasional smell of putrefying flesh, as the bleached and bloated bodies removed from the boat were brought to the surface Sunday.
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Faced with more than 12, 000 tons of putrefying rubbish that in some areas is piled over six feet ( two meters ) high and stretches for a city block, the sanitation crews have a gruesome task.
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However Lind, like most of the medical profession, believed that scurvy was essentially a result of ill-digested and putrefying food within the body, bad water, excessive work and living in a damp atmosphere which prevented healthful perspiration.
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The putrefying remains of at least four corpses could be seen Tuesday in the camp's center _ including a twisted, burned body on the steps inside one shot-up building, two yellowed feet protruding from the rubble of a house.
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Despite this, " Asenath " ( possibly Ephraim's soul ) managed to take control of his body while he was in the sanitarium, meaning that " the thing on the doorstep " was actually Derby inhabiting Asenath's putrefying corpse.
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"Since so little is required to make a human being, " wrote Descartes, smugly, " it is certainly not surprising that so many animals, worms and insects form spontaneously before our eyes in all putrefying substances ."
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Napol�on Gallois later relayed the legend that an unspecified French frigate had encountered the wreck of " Duc de Dantzig " drifting at sea, covered with dried blood and the putrefying corpses of her crew, many crucified to the masts or the deck.
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With bonfires of rotting garbage and putrefying animal carcasses casting pillars of smoke into sky, the city of Surat began what officials there described on Sunday as " a return to normalcy " after days of panic brought about by an outbreak of pneumonic plague.
