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[4245] Excrements daily to be voided by art or nature; and which Fernelius enjoins his patient, consil. 44, above the rest, to avoid all passions and perturbations of the mind.
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Members are united and joined together by the Joints; and if you should give none in the third day, yet will there be a purgation of the Veins, and of the Excrements, without any molestation or pain; is not this a great power of Nature?
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He took Notice that the Passages of the Excrements were cover'd in all other Creatures besides himself: that by which they voided their grosser Excrements, with a Tail; and that which serv'd for the voiding of their Urine, with Hair or some such like thing.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Bounds: And that the whole was like One Animal, in which the Luminaries represented the Senses; The Spheres so join'd and compacted together, answer'd to the Limbs; and the Sublunary World, to the Belly, in which the Excrements and Humors are contain'd, and which oftentimes breeds
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Tis just as if the Dog should say, I have or may have the qualities of the Child, because I lick up its stinking Excrements.
The Pilgrims Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 400-499 1909
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Excrements are left on the ground and not in the water.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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Indeed, they were not very cleanly; for they would have wallow'd in their own Excrements, if they had not been prevented.
The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722
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Deje&ion, (Lat.) a calling down; alfo an Evacuanon of the Excrements, orgoing to Stool.
Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ... 1707
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Sweat, the Wax of the Ears, the Excrements of the Belly and Bladder.
Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ... 1707
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Table Showing the Amount of Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid, and Potash, in One Ton of Fresh Human Excrements, and in One Ton of Fresh
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860
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