Cleaning up the patient’s excrement out of the bedpan was not the highlight of the nurse’s day.

The dog’s excrement on the floor seemed to fill the entire room with a terrible odor.

Cleaning up excrement from the stalls, the stable boy thought that nothing smelled worse than the horses’ manure.

Wading through muck, the sewer workers gagged at the smell of bodily excrement seeping through the pipes.

Squeezed into a tight encampment, slaves on the ship were forced to empty their own excrement in buckets with others feces.