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...glands of the upper trunk and head. These myriad, tiny glands are easily blocked by hardened sebum, which creates a blackhead. In its efforts to get rid of this plug, the body starts the inflammatory process, causing a pimple. Inside the pimple are blood and lymph fluids in which bacteria thrive, creating a pustule similar to a small boil. At the edges of big pustules, bacterial poisons kill skin cells and leave disfiguring scars...
...involves the with-drawal of water from the river, its circulation through a plant or building (a process which often raises the water's temperature and changes its oxygen content) and its discharge back into the river. The changed character of the water can mean increased growth of bacteria and algae, as well as death to fish...
...environs of the River Styx," he wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities of fecal bacteria, closing out the light and consuming oxygen required by fish and other forms of marine animal and plant life, before sluggishly moving seaward on the outgoing tide...
...might have been expected, Payne's screened piglets fared much better than the unscreened. After bloating and then dehydrating for two weeks, they became mummified and showed little evidence of change for about two months. After 100 days, they began to disintegrate under the attack of bacteria and fungi...
...experiments demonstrate, Payne reports, that insects and their larvae hasten decomposition not only by feeding on the carcass, but also by spreading bacteria and by the simple mechanical process of burrowing through the flesh. "If it weren't for insects," Entomologist Payne says, "we'd be up to our necks in dead bodies...