bacillary dysentery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bacillary dysentery
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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A man as obsessive about germs as Hughes could hardly be comforted by the knowledge that outbreaks of polio and bacillary dysentery afflict the republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
A whiskery, rod-shaped germ called Bacillus dysenteriae and related to both the colon and typhoid fever germs causes bacillary dysentery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shigellosis, a bacillary dysentery that is a virulent and highly infectious intestinal disease, is epidemic in Central America, where it has attacked more than a thousand people in Guatemala alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nonetheless, seven have died of bacillary dysentery in New Jersey, 278 have been hospitalized since July.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was mainly what is called bacillary dysentery, for which Epsom salts is one of the best remedies.
From In Mesopotamia by Nicoll, Maurice
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