dysentery

You and/or your ancestors didn’t die of dysentery.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 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

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

Terens soon contracted dysentery, which almost killed him.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

Then there was dysentery, the specter of which was raised with every loose stool.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

"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

But taking their journey through a land that abounded in all sorts of plenty, they ate, after their long want, with that excess of everything they met with, that they suffered from dropsies and dysenteries.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

Hence we have all heard of contagious pleurisies, catarrhs, dysenteries, ulcers, &c., and if the doctrines of that writer be received, we shall soon also hear of contagious Cholera Morbus with a vengeance.

From Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by J. (James) Gillkrest

Mothers Should Nurse Their Children.—Statistics show that the summer diarrhœas and dysenteries, which carry off such immense numbers of children each year, are almost unknown among babies that nurse.

From Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Lydia Estes Pinkham

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 William Salisbury