dysentery

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

By World War II, even as scientists were manufacturing gallons of phages to combat cholera, dysentery, and gangrene in Stalingrad and Leningrad, much the West had given up on phages.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024

Jones plays Isaac Higgintoot, a member of the American Continental Congress who — appropriately, given his last name — died of dysentery while serving as a captain in the Revolutionary War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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

Intermittent fevers are extremely common, as are likewise dysenteries, which usually terminate in swellings of the abdomen, and often prove fatal.

From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by Burckhardt, John Lewis

Hence some have recommended it as an astringent in dysenteries, a diuretic, and others as an aperient and deobstruent in scrophulous habits.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William

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 Hill, John

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 Blanc, Dr. Henri