He died in Sydney in June, 1803, from dysentery contracted at Timor.
The dysentery swept away one third of their army; and the clamors of his subjects, who were impatient to pass the Alps, disposed Theodebert to listen with respect to the mild exhortations of Belisarius.
The diseases consequent to this exposure, typhus and intermittent fever, dysentery and diarrhoea," and "but little more than half of the men were fit for duty.
Fever and dysentery attacked this second army as they had the first, and with a similar virulence and destructiveness.
In that vein he passed all the sick in review, prescribing for all, the syphilitics and the wounded, the fevered and the dysentery patients his strong licorice tea.
There is a little fever and a good deal ofdysentery even now among the regulars.
We are only sportsmen," said one of them with a sigh, as he crawled up the platform, torn with dysentery and fever.
In December, when the cases of enteric fever and dysentery began to be very numerous, it was determined to take possession of the milch cows, and to see that the milk was used for the sick alone.
Enteric is not quite so bad as it was, but dysentery increases.
The letters I have lately seen from officers recovering from wounds or dysentery or enteric are simply heart-rending in their appeals.
Yesterday the Boers, with fine simplicity, sent to our ambulance camp for some chlorodyne because they had run short of it, and were troubled with dysenterylike ourselves.
Dysentery and enteric are as bad as ever, but do not increase in proportion to the length of siege.
One of the soldiers, a sergeant of some years' standing who accompanied Mr. Fernaka on his arduous march, unfortunately contracted dysentery and arrived at Banzyville only to die.
Although much of this necessity is on all sides, it is not of good drinking quality and dysentery is therefore common, while bilious fever and hematuria are also known.
The assimilating functions in chronic insanity are sluggish and imperfect, and a dietary upon which sane people would retain good health, becomes in them the fruitful source of dysentery and other forms of fatal disease.
The history of large asylums bears testimony to the truth of this; for cholera has scourged more than one most severely, and dysentery and chronic or obstinate diarrhoea are pretty constant visitants in their wards.
Cholera and dysentery soon carried off eighteen women and seven children--more fortunate than their companions.
He took this reverse grievously to heart: harassed as he had been by the censures passed at home on his administration, his health gave way under this additional blow, and he succumbed to dysentery on the 29th.
The roots have been used by white men in the treatment of diarrhea, dysentery and leucorrhea.
Steps go fast enough; my captain died of wounds and dysentery a week ago; so I have the company in earnest.
Marching over India has its disagreeables, of which dysentery and dust are about the worst.
We have lost from consumption two, and from dysentery six this year; in fourteen months not less than fourteen: more than in all the other years put together.
At Ulava he found thatdysentery had swept off nearly all the natives, and he thought these races, even while left to themselves, were dying out.
Whether it was from the large numbers, or the effect of the colder climate, or from what cause could not be told, but a frightful attack of dysentery fell upon the Melanesians, and for several weeks suffering and death prevailed among them.
They were decimated by dysenteryand diarrhoea, and died in swarms.
No matter how arising, dysentery is an exhausting disease, and one that demands prompt treatment for its alleviation.
I approach this part of the treatment with some degree of reluctance,--for dysentery is a case requiring opium--and opium I never like a mother of her own accord to administer.
If the child be at the breast, keep him to it, and let him have nothing else for dysentery is frequently caused by improper feeding.
The vomiting continues, and is at times very distressing; and diarrhoea and dysentery may supervene and cause death.
It very soon reduces the creature to a mere skeleton, and if not attended to, will end in dysentery and death.
It was about July, when dysentery was at its worst, and quite half my battery were sick with it, all at the same time.
Dysentery knocked me out in the end, and after spending a fortnight in hospital at Malta I had “H.
At last I fell ill with dysentery and gastritis, and came home on a huge hospital ship, with four thousand more sick and wounded soldiers.
Although still feeling ill fromdysentery I tried not to make much of it, but I could no longer ride my horse so got on a wagon.
Having struggled long against my dysentery I am now compelled to go on the sick list; and feel it to be a great blow, after all my trouble and training, that my Terrible bluejackets are to go.
In all cases where a light and nice diet for patients who have been or are afflicted with diarrhœa or dysentery is required, rice, in almost any cooked form, is most agreeable and advantageous.
Dose: In dysentery and diarrhœa, one pill every six to twelve hours.
Typhus fever, malaria, cholera, enteric, and dysentery have won more victories than powder and shot.
Dysentery has been for centuries one of the most terrible of camp diseases, killing thousands, and, in its prolonged damage to health, it is one of the most fatal of foes to armies.
Dickason was half crippled with dysenterywhen they started, but improved.
The first dysentery was early in the winter, and was caused by using the salt from the sea-water.
Browning, however, who had had enteric fever in the past, had dysentery almost continually right through the winter.
This mode of termination in cases of dysentery was quite common in the foul atmosphere of the Confederate States Military Hospital, in the depressed, depraved condition of the system of these Federal prisoners.
If they were due to improper and insufficient food, they should have been classed accordingly, and if to diarrhea or dysentery or scurvy, the classification should in like manner have been explicit.
He ascribes suppuration of the liver to intemperance and protracted disease, {946} especially dysentery and colliquative wasting.
In cases in which dysentery has occurred as a complication the characteristic appearances of the disease will of course be observed, as well as those of typhus fever.
Dysentery was, as would be expected, quite frequent in the Indian epidemics studied by Carter.
Dysentery has also been observed in certain epidemics in Ireland, and is not infrequent when the disease breaks out in besieged towns or when it occurs in summer.
It is evident that other diseases--and dysentery in particular--are equally entitled to be called enteric fever.
Fifth: a prisoner, Harris Nash, died of dysentery after three months of the ordinary discipline.
During this part of the journey he had constant attacks of intermittent fever[40], accompanied in the latter stages of the road with dysentery of the most distressing kind.
Mr. Gabriel was equally attentive to him during a long and distressing attack of fever and dysentery that prostrated him soon after his arrival at Loanda.
It was not till after the worst of the dysenteryhad been mastered by these means that the Turks began to treat him for it.
A little later he said I appeared to have suffered much from the climate—dysentery and malaria and so on.
It stated that Hill was suffering from dysenteryand acute melancholia, and that he was dying through neglect, and that he should be sent to England at once.
