He was astonishingly prolific, hiring editors, proofreaders, and even ghostwriters to help him produce mountains of humanistic texts and fashion himself as the quintessential figure of the Northern Renaissance before dying suddenly of dysentery at the age of 69 because, you know, it was the sixteenth century.

and that dysentery on slowly

Dysentery, typhus, and cholera were rampant, and otherwise minor injuries would prove fatal when gangrene set in.

You've probably heard of amoebic dysentery.

Others have theorized that Gyoko is meant to represent amoebic dysentery.

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Dysentery, malaria, yellow fever, smallpox, measles, and influenza ravaged the enslaved and crew members alike.

And yet another solid truth is that flies can carry cholera, dysentery, and typhoid.

Dysentery, typhoid, parasites, and other infections lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths every year,

Diseases such as leprosy, diabetes, dysentery, and measles were rife, and there was no cure or treatments like we have today.