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Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

We have a number of cases of pentosuria on record in which patients were excreting penatomic sugar, but had not glycosuria, though their urine responded to the ordinary tests for this.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)