violence, the body decomposes more rapidly than when death results
from disease. Putrefaction sets in early in death from the infectious
fevers, such as typhus, pyæmia, and typhoid fever, also in death from
suffocation by smoke or coal gas, by strangulation or after narcotic
poisoning. Those parts of a body which are the seat of bruises,
wounds, or fractures, decompose rapidly; this is especially seen in
parts after a surgical operation.