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To: Krowbar who wrote (34710)	4/14/1999 7:36:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I believe he got the patent. I haven't read the claims in the document, but dumping in pot with a hole in it, and swirling the stuff down the drain with water has been done for thousands of years. If you look at sail ships, for'ard, you will see the heads hung out over the sides where the sailors squatter and had to wash with buckets of salt water. If you look high on castles walls you'll see perches where the defenders did their business. No doubt, staining the walls reduced the enemy's desire to assault, and perhaps created the custom of "mooning" your enemies. Roman villas with complete sanitary facilities built from stone have beeh excavated. In the first U.S. Army Field Manual I read about field sanitation, it was emphasized that when taking water from a stream, one carefully selected a site upstream of the head drainage. The Romans knew all about field sanitation.