Word: excrementalism
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...these thorough precautions, there has been no large-scale typhus epidemic in louse-ridden Poland, although the disease has flickered there, as it has in China, for many years. Warsaw has suffered from typhoid fever, a disease quite different from typhus, transmitted by typhoid bacilli which lodge in human excrement, food, water...
...were locked in a stable where there was not even room to sit down. There was fixed for their natural needs a corner of the stable, and a priest, Casimir Stepczynski, parish priest of Bydgoszcz, was forced together with a Jew to carry away with his hands human excrement-work which was fatiguing due to the great number of prisoners. The vicar, Adam Musial, who wanted to aid the venerable priest, was brutally beaten with a rifle butt...
...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...