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  • Dysentery Section of Hospital: Fenced off from the hospital was a quarantined area containing about ten wards-called the Dysentery Section-under the supervision of a separate staff of medical officers and corpsmen.

    Blood Brothers Jacobs, Col Eugene 1985

  • Dysentery Section of Hospital: Fenced off from the hospital was a quarantined area containing about ten wards-called the Dysentery

    Blood Brothers A Medic's Sketch Book Colonel Eugene C. Jacobs

  • POWs at the Mining Camp were packed side by side on dirt floors in 10-by-12 huts, Borie said from his home in Williamstown, N.J. Dysentery, beri beri and other diseases ravaged the men.

    Korean War POW finally buried after 60 years 2011

  • Dysentery had set in and our bodies were cannibalizing themselves in order to get the proteins they needed for energy and survival.

    Nikki Stone: Climbing Blind: An Unbelievable Trek Up Everest 2010

  • Dysentery had set in and our bodies were cannibalizing themselves in order to get the proteins they needed for energy and survival.

    Nikki Stone: Climbing Blind: An Unbelievable Trek Up Everest 2010

  • Dysentery—Inability to take the way things are happening anymore.

    The Secret Language of Your Body Inna Segal 2010

  • I spent many a night hunting werewolves in Transylvania and dying of Dysentery on the Oregon Trail.

    You always remember your first 2010

  • Dysentery left many Hill 57 children sickened and malnourished.

    Melinda Gopher: Baucus and Hill 57 Victims of 30 Year Chemical War 2009

  • * Diarrhea and Dysentery :- Powder of the seed is an effective remedy for diarrhea and dysentery.

    Archive 2009-06-01 photographerno1 2009

  • Some years previously, another of the great Victorian explorers, Dysentery Trailblazer, had managed to trace the source of the Digestive Biscuit back to an area just inside present-day Zimbabwe before he mysteriously disappeared into a tobacconist's shop at the edge of a small jungle clearing.

    Archive 2009-03-01 David Hadley 2009

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