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  • Food-borne and water-borne illness: diseases, including amoebic and bacillary dysenteries and other diarrheal diseases, and the typhoid fevers are very common throughout the area.

    Mexico - travelers's summary profile 2007

  • Food-borne and water-borne illness: diseases, including amoebic and bacillary dysenteries and other diarrheal diseases, and the typhoid fevers are very common throughout the area.

    Mexico - travelers's summary profile 2007

  • The diseases which attacked them were in the form of dysenteries, tenesmus, lientery, and fluxes; but, in some cases, there were dropsies, with or without these complaints.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • This disease is habitual to them both in summer and in winter, and in addition they are very subject to dropsies of a most fatal character; and in summer dysenteries, diarrheas, and protracted quartan fevers frequently seize them, and these diseases when prolonged dispose such constitutions to dropsies, and thus prove fatal.

    On Airs, Waters, And Places 2007

  • So much have all times attributed to this element, to be conveniently provided of it: although Galen hath taken exceptions at such waters, which run through leaden pipes, ob cerussam quae in iis generatur, for that unctuous ceruse, which causeth dysenteries and fluxes; [2916] yet as Alsarius Crucius of Genna well answers, it is opposite to common experience.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The urine in most cases was of the proper color, but thin, and having scanty sediments: in most the bowels were disordered with thin and bilious dejections; and many, after passing through the other crises, terminated in dysenteries, as happened to Xenophanes and Critias.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • The others are subject to dysenteries and dry ophthalmies, and some have catarrhs beginning in the head and descending to the lungs.

    On Airs, Waters, And Places 2007

  • With regard to the seasons, if the winter be of a dry and northerly character, and the spring rainy and southerly, in summer there will necessarily be acute fevers, ophthalmies, and dysenteries, especially in women, and in men of a humid temperament.

    Aphorisms 2007

  • But if the winter be dry and northerly, and the spring showery and southerly, the summer will necessarily be of a febrile character, and give rise to ophthalmies and dysenteries.

    On Airs, Waters, And Places 2007

  • Other people are subject to dysenteries and ophthalmies, and old men to catarrhs, which quickly cut them off.

    Aphorisms 2007

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