Properly applied to the fossilised excrements of animals; but often employed to designate phosphatic concretions which are not of this nature.
Whenever the Patient has been at Stool, or has made Urine, these Excrements should be removed immediately.
A great portion of the excrements from the cities is conducted into our rivers and streams and pollutes them.
Now animal and human excrements contain the very chemical substances that are suited to the cultivation of human food.
Other masked masochists are excited by the secretions or even excrements of women.
Some sadists soil themselves with the excrements of the woman they "love!
This doth happen most of all unto children, because they have moist excrements by reason of their often drinking.
If from a humour flowing from the head there are signs of a catarrh, and the excrements are frothy.
The child's body must also be kept open, that the humours being carried to the lower parts, the vapours may not ascend, as is usual for them to do when the body is costive, and the excrements too long retained.
There have been some female children who have their fundaments quite closed, and yet have voided the excrements of the guts by an orifice which nature, to supply the defect, had made within the neck of the womb.
Because they are said to have greater store of excrements and seed as philosophers assert.
Also, excrements retained cause great difficulty, and so does a stone in the bladder: or when the bladder is full of urine, without being able to void it, or when the woman is troubled with great and painful piles.
What loathsome excrements within, are covered by all that bravery without!
He claimed that the foul straw upon which the soldiers slept became infectious, but maintained that the chief source of infection were the privies "after they had received the dysenteric excrements of those who first sicken.
Is the supply of nitrogen in the excrements of animals quite a matter of indifference, or do we receive back from our fields a quantity of the elements of blood corresponding to this supply?
We may obtain a clear insight into the chemical constitution of the solid excrements without further investigation, by comparing the faeces of a dog with his food.
Experience in agriculture shows that the production of vegetables on a given surface increases with the supply of certain matters, originally parts of the soil which had been taken up from it by plants--the excrements of man and animals.
Her fluid excrements will contain carbonate of potash and soda, together with compounds of the same bases with inorganic acids.
Thus the excrements of pigs which we have fed with peas and potatoes are principally suited for manuring crops of potatoes and peas.
The excrements are more solid than those of the common cow; and in discharging its water the animal bends its body backward.
When we approached towards them, they assembled together, set up loud and frightful cries, and threw branches at us which they broke from the trees; some voided their excrements in their hands, and threw them at our heads.
In this way the urine is perfectly absorbed by the muck, while the warmth of the freshly voided excrements so facilitates the fermentative process, that, according to Mr. F.
As for the excrements of these two puppies, the gold puppy excretes gold and the silver puppy excretes silver.
This being so, you will be greatly enriched if you sell these excrements to the officials.
Their excrements are little grains, which are the same colour as the wool they have eaten.
Their excrements are, in fact, according to Reaumur, nothing else than dried earth, from which the stomach and intestines of the insect have withdrawn all nourishing matter.
It is under the excrements of ruminating animals and horses that they must be looked for.
We never saw the Chukches give them any food: the only food they got was the frozen excrements of the fox and other animals, which they themselves snapped up in passing.
According to Captain Veith, who has collected a large number of specimens of this Southern form, the contents of the stomach as well as the excrements show this snake to feed exclusively on grasshoppers.
However surprising, it is a fact that spiny mammals are occasionally eaten, spines of the Madagascar Hedgehog (Ericulus) having been found in the excrements of a Boa madagascariensis.
The greater part of the stock is kept on boards, and the liquid and solid excrements are collected together in the tank, and largely diluted before distribution.
It is also called the branchial cavity and the cloaca, because it receives the excrements and sexual products as well as the respiratory water.
The anterior cavity receives the urogenital canal, and is the sole outlet of the urine and the sexual products; the hind or anus-cavity passes the excrements only.
The excrements of different kinds of animals vary in composition, and those of the same animal will vary according to the nature and quantity of the food given, the age of the animal, and the way it is generally treated.
Unless, therefore, the two kinds of excrements are mixed, a perfect manure supplying all the needs of the plant is not obtained; care must accordingly be taken to absorb all the urine by the litter.
It possibly was used later to denote the excrements of a hare; thus Blome (1686) p.
Because the thin are smaller, being appointed only to transport the Chyle out of the Stomach into the Reserver; whereas the thick are more large and stronger, serving to carry forth the gross Excrements out of the Belly.
But if the Fistula be situated too far forward in the Fundament, the Sphincter of the Anus must not be entirely cut, otherwise the Excrements cannot be any longer retain'd.
Several times I saw the young birds move themselves backwards to the inner edge of the nest, and then void their excrements over it, so that only a little of the quite outer portion was contaminated.
It would seem as though this power of ejecting their excrements to a distance which various birds possess was, sometimes at least, in proportion to the size and bulk of the nest which they construct.
It purges mixt humours from the head, and clears it of such excrementsas hinder the sight.
In the breeding of blood, are three excrements most conspicuous, viz.
But, of course, the composition of the excrementswould vary greatly, according to the food.
To throw all the liquid and solid excrements into a manure-cellar underneath the cow-stable.
The excrements of the cow contain much more water than those of the horse.
In the winter it is not a difficult matter to save all the liquid and solid excrements from pigs, provided the pens are dry and no water comes in from the rain and snow.
In other words, provided there is no loss, we should get in the liquid and solid excrements of the ox and dry cow 95.
These figures are from Lawes and Gilbert, and may be taken as representing the composition of excrements from moderately well-fed persons.
When the liquid and solid excrements from well-fed animals, with the straw necessary to absorb the liquid, are placed in a heap, fermentation sets in and soon effects very important changes in the nature and composition of the materials.
I acknowledge I am not better satisfied with this explanation than the rest; because, why cannot the foetus void its excrements in the amnios, if it was pressed so to do?
But having afterwards found them in the excrementsof other animals, and even in his own, he no longer knew to what to attribute them.
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