dysentery
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Let’s hope the Gopher coach doesn’t succumb to dysentery by Halloween.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“It contributes to ill health, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, water-related diseases, and it contributes to conflicts over water.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
You and/or your ancestors didn’t die of dysentery.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2024
Cockroaches carry a wide range of diseases and pathogens including bubonic plague, dysentery, hepatitis, hookworms, leprosy, salmonella and polio.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024
Officials were concerned about the spread of E. coli, the risk of typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
"They've got tuberculosis, Salmonella, all the dysenteries," says Rodger Farr, a psychiatrist who ministers to the homeless of Los Angeles.
From Time Magazine Archive
When on the other hand the body, though wasted, still holds out, then the bile is expelled, like an exile from a factious state, causing associating diarrhoeas and dysenteries and similar disorders.
From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett
The moon causes palsy, cholic, dropsy, imposthumes, dysenteries, and all diseases arising from obstructed circulation.
From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian
Putrid Water should always be purified by boiling it together with charcoal or charred sticks, as low fevers and dysenteries too often are the consequences of drinking it.
From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Sir Francis Galton
There is no safe way for it to take but that; and even that when urged too far may bring on fatal dysenteries.
From Hypochondriasis A Practical Treatise (1766) by John Hill
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