Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery,… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6%. ...No one..really knows the… — Ruth Winter Copy Share Image
I was in Mongolia, pretty extreme situations. We were sick with dysentery, we were sick with bronchitis. I had been bitten by… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
