Word: excrement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to the sexual trophies of Ethiopian warriors who had castrated their enemy, lepers in advanced stages of physical decay were depicted mingling with the populace of Ethiopian towns. Snapped in Ethiopian jails were prisoners chained amid human excrement. Among printable pictures in the white book, one shows a normal Ethiopian flogging, administered daily to culprits throughout the Empire...
...contact retain a mystic affinity. Thus he believes that if his spear has wounded an enemy who escaped, he can make the wound fester by thrusting the spearpoint into a fire. He must take extreme care in disposing of his hair cuttings, his nail parings, his spittle and his excrement lest these things which remain a vital part of him fall into hostile hands. More abstruse forms of wizardry he claims to know nothing about, pointing out reasonably that if he knew how they were performed he would be a wizard himself...
...species of Filariae, called Onchocerca caecutiens, about one and one-quarter inches long, slimmer than a hair and white. When they get into the skin and breed, they soon form a network of colonies on the skull, resembling sodden felt and causing cranial protuberances. Wandering worms and their excrement give rise to the other gnomelike appearances...
Moss grown on a human skull, the thigh bone of a hanged man, the ashes of a coal-black cat's head, animal excrement, black tips of crab's claws, burned hart's horn, toads, newts, serpents-these were medi- eval medicaments whose use has not yet entirely disappeared. Last week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently...