Assertion: arsenic | /r/CapableOf | slow down the putrefaction processes
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text: arsenic poisoning.4 Féynes was well aware that arsenic may slow down the putrefaction processes—as a result of both the direct action of the poison and the considerable loss of liquids from prolonged vomiting and diarrhoea before death—so that bodies exhumed after a long time are often found in a state of mummification.