AUTOLYSIS VS. PUTREFACTION POSTMORTAL AUTOLYSIS IS USUALLY CAUSED BY PROTHEOLITIC FERMENTATIONS WHICH ARE PRESENT IN DIGESTIVE FLUIDS IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYSTEM, BUT ALSO IN CELLS, ESPECIALLY LIVER AND KIDNEY THE STOMACH FLUID DIGESTS THE MEMBRANE OF THE STOMACH LATER IT GETS BEAUTIFULLY SOFT, OF DARK BROWN COLOR BECAUSE THE SALT ACID CREATES HEMATHINE FROM HEMOGLOBINE SOMETIMES THE WHOLE WALL OF THE STOMACH DIGESTS... ...AND RIPS APART (GASTROMALACIA ACIDA) THE CONTENT OF THE STOMACH DIGESTS MIDRIFF (OR PLEURA) BEFORE DEATH, THE ESOPHAGUS IS ALSO PREDIGESTED WHEN VOMITING (OESOPHAGOMALACIA ACIDA) ENTERS BY ASPIRATION INTO LUNGS - THE SOFTENED TISSUE WILL HAVE A SOURY STENCH (PNEUMOMALACIA ACIDA) THE PREDIGESTION BY PANCREATIC FLUID (IN PANCREAS) (ON THE CHOLEDOCH AND GALLBLADDER) BILE (ON THE INTESTINE TISSUE) CONTENTS OF THE INTESTINES PURE AUTOLYSIS NOT COMPLICATED BY PUTREFACTION IS A MACERATION AND DECAY OF A FOETUS, DEAD IN THE UTERUS BIG PIECES OF SKIN AND INNER ORGANS (ESPECIALLY LIVER) SOFTENED TO A MASS (FETUS MACERATUS) THE CHANGE (OF THE WHOLE FOETUS) IN PAPER-LIKE SUBSTANCE (FETUS PAPYRACEUS) SOON PUTREFACTION DOMINATES TO AUTOLYSIS CAUSED BY THE LOVELY BACTERIA OF DECAY - GRAMOPOSITIVE BACILLAE (BACILLUS PUTRIFICUS) WERE PRESENT IN THE INTESTINES BEFORE DEATH THEY BREED AND CAUSE THE DECOMPOSITION OF THE INTESTINE CONTENTS - THE DEVELOPMENT ... OF STINKING GASES ... - PENETRATION ... INTO NEARBY ORGANS ... ...INTO BLOOD AND SOFT TISSUES, WHERE THE SEPTIC DECMPOSITION APPEARS (SOFT) TISSUES CHANGED INTO A STINKING DARKGREY-GREEN MASS (OFTEN FULL WITH GAS BUBBLES ) (THE CORPSE IS INFLATED BY GASES... ...THE TISSUE IS FULL OF GAS BUBBLES - POSTMORTAL EMPHYSEM... ...TOTAL DECAY OF SOFT TISSUES... ...LASTS CIRCA TWO YEARS...)