As bad teeth, enlarged tonsils, and adenoids harbor germs and putrescent matter that vitiate every incoming and outgoing breath, these defects should be immediately corrected.
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen
And not even in Tacitus or Suetonius are to be found more ghastly revelations of a putrescent society, and the ennui and self-loathing which capricious sensualism generates in spirits born for something higher.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
One of the darkest and most repulsive features in that putrescent society was the social value which attached to a vicious and shameful childlessness.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill