dysentery
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“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
He died in 1941 of dysentery when British forces briefly fought there during World War Two.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
You and/or your ancestors didn’t die of dysentery.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2024
For instance, Pliny the Elder, the ancient Roman author and philosopher, developed 27 different medical remedies using onions, ranging from curing bad vision and insomnia, to healing dysentery, mouth sores and toothaches.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2024
But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
"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
It is also recommended as a preventive or remedy for the diseases natural to warm climates, especially intermittent, gastric and bilious fevers, dysenteries and disorders of the liver.
From Saratoga and How to See It by R. F. Dearborn
Pernicious fevers, malignant dysenteries and cholera had decimated both rebels and loyalists; war and sickness had marched hand in hand to make of this fair oasis of the Soudan a wilderness painful to contemplate.
From Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People by Dr. Henri Blanc
Fevers and dysenteries, snakes and musquitoes, the plantain and the palm, we had left behind.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
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
