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.
"A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People"
Henry Blanc
Our provisions were very short, and we were obliged to make use of the whale oil, but it soon produced such Dysenteries, that it was no longer resorted to.
"The Pacha of Many Tales"
Captain Frederick Marryat
Likewise, many of the woeful tragedies of infant summer diarrhea and Dysenteries have been tracked to the so-called "innocent house fly."
"The Mother and Her Child"
William S. Sadler Lena K. Sadler