f the environment (though in a special sense the word putrefaction is applied to partial destruction, when a thing’s nature is perverted). Hence everything, except fire, is liable Fabian Frei Jersey to putrefy; for earth, water, and air Sven Kums Jersey putrefy, being all of Bogdan Lobont Jersey them matter relatively to fire. The definition of putrefaction is: the destruction of the peculiar and natural heat in any moist subject by external heat, that is, by the heat of the environment. So since lack of heat is the ground of this affection and everything in as far as it lacks heat is cold, both heat and cold will be the causes of putrefaction, which will be due indifferently to cold in the putrefying subject or to heat in the environment.
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We must now describe the next kinds of processes which the qualities already mentioned set up in actually existing natural objects as matter.
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