{"id":263240,"date":"2026-02-02T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263240\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:20:10","slug":"romans-used-human-faeces-as-medicine-1900-years-ago-study-dark-brown-fragments-were-found-inshorts-inshorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263240\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans used human faeces as medicine 1,900 years ago: Study | Dark brown fragments were found | Inshorts &#8211; Inshorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipAFBVV95cUxQb2E0cDFiWGtKdG1LeHplYWNRZ0I1ZW0xTFdPYXpTeDJWbzlpZUkwWjM4d1hwaVc1VnlUS3h3M09SdFFCYTZCY1prZTZJNzUtWS1vRlFZeVJrelExQVdMSi02aDRSclZ2OGJWV2tXWlp4d1VONG5YMjg0c0VrbTdLQ1FVTFFLVGZ1MUlQajFxVDJacHpEVzhhNkFDQVNVSy1yT2x4cdIBqgFBVV95cUxPQXNQcWdOTVk5WUVyOTFtLVBFbzhudEJZaEU4UXluX3pTQU9FRmg5ZmliSDBaTFpzYWRZSXlWUDhTQktBV1ZqMV9qUS0yXzQxQ2p6WFFSLXRrODI3NjF6bHBPMF9naXVsZG5aYnZWT1lvVVlxNFVpc2xhaEVpNkpXaUY0cmp6eHZpZHY5dFpBN2Nqc252YU94QTctUzFSTWNObXd6MXFMV1k5QQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Romans used human faeces as medicine 1,900 years ago: Study | Dark brown fragments were found | Inshorts<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Inshorts<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijAFBVV95cUxPS1l2dkhPNURPS2lJZ1J2d1RjSGJsek5sU3hPSE4wSDFxV1VTVS1BRHBtR0JEbkRmbkg2cXQ0RElpTWZ2Vy11MlhBMUxEWU9aWWpuazQ1M3oxVk80SE5lNmhBQkl5MGFkU1lFWEpiUjVreFJ0VkFVc3JNanFPYXI5ejVueDdWWHF5U2t0Ng?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1900-year-old Roman doctor used human feces and thyme as medicine, study suggests<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Interesting Engineering<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiywFBVV95cUxNb3NyYUNvMjlWNEszR2FveFdpZHJ5c3pnQnhVZmZPcnhINDlYYWN4Q1RKaHBtQTdaM2ZJSU94VkM5VDhmR3NNcTlLUDVMOEpZemxtRFhVZ0FUbzRlY2FzcVRnMnp1NC1va0xmb1JfeVpOQkUxVjB2TEduY2dPbDRIcno1OHgtYmlVOG4tcWhfRExYX052UTBpdEoxenVoOHJOaEhYTVRLQ0F5NWM4RmtJOWFQYzRTS0x2RGZLdTNOUE5pbWhteklVeVp4Zw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Romans used human feces as medicine 1,900 years ago \u2014 and used thyme to mask the smell<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Live Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romans used human faeces as medicine 1,900 years ago: Study | Dark brown fragments were found | Inshorts&nbsp;&nbsp;Inshorts1900-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[121520,251,47,2580,784,62917,134,16420,1258,256,524,3193,111,43,2577,139,69,150640,147,383,13797,1530,2579,2578,2576],"class_list":["post-263240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-121520","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-affairs","tag-current-news","tag-daily-news","tag-faeces","tag-health","tag-human","tag-latest-news","tag-local-news","tag-medication","tag-medicine","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-news-online","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-romans","tag-science","tag-study","tag-used","tag-years","tag-2579","tag-2578","tag-2576"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}