bacillary dysentery

In the 18th century, German immigrants coming to Pennsylvania boarded ships plagued with typhus, dysentery, smallpox, and scurvy.
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I got drunk, sunstroke, and dysentery,” laughs Robert, “but I also got the girl.
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She ended up in prison on the island of Saipan where she either was executed or died of dysentery.
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At last, 17 days after he left his summer palace, His Holiness, seriously ill with dysentery, crossed the Indian border.
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But he had gone away, on account of the deaths which had occurred there from some form of dysentery.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
Stools composed almost wholly of mucus and streaked with blood are the rule in dysentery, ileocolitis, and intussusception.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Its internal uses are in hysteria, and 136 in such conditions as diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2|Various
Before that they were all crammed into the six cells, and locked in for the night, some of them with dysentery.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25)|Robert Louis Stevenson
The most common complaint is a dysentery, towards the latter end of the autumn.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney

Medical definitions for bacillary dysentery

bacillary dysentery

Any of various severe infections of the colon caused by microorganisms, especially of the genus Shigella, that result in abdominal cramping, fever, and passage of blood-stained stools or of material consisting of blood and mucus.