Note 37 — XVIII. ORDURE ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN USED IN FOOD BY THE ISRAELITES.
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“Il doit manger du pain, de froment, d’orge, de fèves, de millet, et de couvrir d’excrémens humains,” etc.—(Voltaire, “Essais sur les Mœurs,” vol. i. p. 195, Paris, 1795).
“And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man in their sight.”—(Ezekiel iv. 12.)