Anonymous Passersby Defecate At Your Doorstep A Solution

DO ANONYMOUS PASSERSBY DEFECATE AT YOUR DOORSTEP A SOLUTION 

Think about this. First, it is not only blood that can communicate over long distances. Second, if only the blood of the wounded or the anus of the perpetrator is affected, then the cure and the punishment are DNA-fingerprinted —a major advance over late-twentieth-century medical care and forensic science. 

Van Helmont, A Ternary of Paradoxes (translated by Walter Charleton), London, 1650, p. 13. 

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