bloody flux
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- The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood.
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- I never saw her before, nor think her near so handsome as she passes for.—After dinner, Mr. Bertue[16] would not let me put ice in my wine, but said my Lord Dorchester[17] got the bloody flux with it, and that it was the worst thing in the world. — The Journal to Stella
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He died of a bloody flux at Burgh on the sands [sic], a small town in Cumberland, July 7, 1337, having reigned 34 years, and lived 68 EDWARD II.
— A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses -
I set out the next day with him to visit this place, but being then only convalescent from a bloody flux which had reduced my strength, I found myself too weak to reach the place, and returned to the boat Footnote 18: The river continues in the same general direction as high up as the island of Mograt, on the Third Cataract, when it resumes a course more south and north.
— A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy -
[27 Such was the state of Ireland in 1741, when bloody flux and malignant fever came to finish what the Famine had left undone.
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines -
After first celebrating an unknown stone, the Alectorius, which renders its possessor invincible if it has been taken out of the stomach of a cock caponized four years before or if it has been ripped out of the ventricle of a hen, Porta informs us that chalcedony wins law suits, that carnelian stops bloody flux 'and is exceeding useful to women who are sick of their flower,' that hyacinth protects against lightning and keeps away pestilence and poison, that topaz quells 'lunatic' passions, that turquoise is of advantage against melancholy, quartan fever, and heart failure.
— Là-bas
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