frenchpet
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ORIGINAL: JohnWarren Feces are a riskier proposition. It does have a long history, even to being recommended in the bible (Ezekiel 4:12) and being an accepted way to demonstrate "self mortification" by the Catholic Church until a few hundred years ago (who says those old guys didn't know how to throw a party.) It has also been used as a medicine (but at about the same time they thought mercury was a medicine). Catholics sure do weird things, although celibacy became a problem only in recent history, when they became serious about it (there was a saying centuries ago that the shadow of a monastery could get a woman pregnant !), but concerning Ezekiel 4:12, although some versions are not clear ("bake it with dung"), others clearly say that the dung is what is burnt to heat the cake, not mixed with the food. Check http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%204:12;&version=32; where you can compare dozens of versions. NIV says "using human excrement for fuel." Concerning old medicine that now seem strange, of course mercury hasn't healed anyone (nor has ox-blood transfer), but I read recently that after 19 centuries of success, and 30 years of disgust, leeches are used again in some hospital (for their anticoagulative properties), because it's just as efficient and way cheaper than modern alternatives.
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