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Dysentery may also be caused by shigellosis, an infection by bacteria of the genus Shigella, and is then known as bacillary dysentery (or Marlow syndrome). The term bacillary dysentery etymologically might seem to refer to any dysentery caused by any bacilliform bacteria, but its meaning is restricted by convention to Shigella dysentery.
Studies indicate that lead was very prominent in Roman beverages. This is mostly due to the lead-based storage containers that were popular during the time. [6] Some scholars speculate that the levels of alcohol consumed on a daily basis were more to blame for the health ailments of the aristocrats of Rome, with the average consumption rate being approximately 3 bottles of wine a day. [6]
Some authors have argued that the contagion may have been something other than dysentery on the basis of Gregory's description of the symptoms. Several authors writing on the history of disease have claimed that this was an epidemic of smallpox. [3] [4] If true, this would be one of the earliest known outbreaks of the disease in European ...
Natural causes, probably dysentery: Edward IV: House of York (England) 28 April 1442 1461–1470 1471–1483 9 April 1483 Unclear, possibly apoplexy brought on by excess. Henry VII: House of Tudor (England) 28 January 1457 1485–1509 21 April 1509 Tuberculosis: James V: House of Stuart (Scotland) 10 April 1512 1513–1542 14 December 1542
Philip VI repeatedly ordered his son, Duke John, to break off the siege and bring his army north. Duke John, considering it a matter of honour, refused. By August, the French supply system had broken down, there was a dysentery epidemic in their camp, desertion was rife and Philip VI's orders were becoming imperious. On 20 August the French ...
Cameron notes, "this separation of external and internal diseases may be unique in medieval medical texts". [5]: 42 Cameron notes, "in Bald's Leechbook is the only plastic surgery mentioned in Anglo-Saxon records". [5]: 169 The recipe in question prescribes surgery for a cleft lip and palate. [6]: vol I ch 13 p57 [7]: vol I ch 13 p56
Hippocrates recommended high doses of white hellebore because he believed that the best and most natural relief for gout was dysentery. [9]: 85 However, purging with white hellebore was probably for the more chronic cases due to the fact that wine and barleywater drinks were very strongly recommended. [10]: 16–17 The lentil plant
Despite some vague understanding of how diseases could spread, the existence of viruses and bacteria was unknown in medieval times, and the outbreak of disease could not be scientifically explained. Any sudden deterioration of health was often blamed on poisoning. Europe was hit by several waves of the Black Death throughout the late Middle ...