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Percentage of Food voided in the Solid and Liquid Excrements.

From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton

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.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

The four principal known Causes are, the Meconium; the Excrements contained in the Body of the Infant, at the Birth; Acidities, or sharp and sour Humours; the Cutting of the Teeth, and Worms.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

The use of the Muscles of the lower Belly is to compress all the contain'd parts, in order to assist them in expelling the Excrements.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Whether any considerable change is to be observ'd in the Pulse, Urin, and other Excrements of the Recipient Animal, by this Operation, or the quantity of his insensible Transpiration?

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry