dejecta

• “A badness which embraces and wallows in social dejecta.”

  Good Bad

• “Ita fastu ante unum mensem turgida civitas, et cacuminibos coelum pulsare visa, ad inferos usque paucis diebus dejecta.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “There is a like discrepancy in the views on the possibility of its diffusion by drinking water, on the influence of conditions of soil, on the question whether the dejecta contain the poison or not, and on the duration of the incubation period.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884

• “Another method is to laboriously analyse the injesta or food consumed and compare it with the dejecta or excretions, until a quantity and kind of food is found which is just sufficient to keep the body in equilibrium.”

  The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition

• “The tray which receives the dejecta should be cleaned out and supplied with fresh sawdust each day, and the soiled sawdust, remains of food, etc., should be cremated.”

  The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

• “These boxes were placed at the end of each row of tents or wards, and were so arranged that both the dejecta and the bedpans were thoroughly disinfected. 181 This proved itself so useful that it came subsequently into general employment in the hospitals at Salonika.”

  War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps

• “An instance was where anything was negligently or carelessly thrown from a house (dejecta vel effusa).”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy

• “The sweat in dysentery unmistakably bears the odor of the dejecta.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

• “Nearby is the _Phlox dejecta_ in large quantities, resembling a desert moss, and covering the rocks with its tinted carpet.”

  The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter

• “By the extremity of the neck, which is blackened and hardened by the dejecta of the larvæ, the cocoon is fixed to the end of the cell without any other support.”

  Social Life in the Insect World

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