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Dysentery
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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dis´en -ter -i ( δυσεντερία , dusenterı́a ): in Acts 28:8 the Revised Version (British and American) uses this word in place of the phrase "bloody flux" of the King James Version to describe the disease by which the father of Publius was affected in Malta at the time of Paul's shipwreck. The acute form of this disease is often attended with high temperature, hence, Luke speaks of it as "fever and dysentery" puretoı́s kaı́ dusenterı́a ). The disease is still occasionally epidemic in Malta where there have been several bad outbreaks among the garrison in the last century, and it has proved to be an intractable and fatal disease there. It is due to parasitic microbe, the Bacillus dysenteriae . In 2 Chronicles 21:19 there is reference to an epidemic of a similar nature in the days of Jehoram. The malady, as predicted by Elisha, attacked the king and assumed a chronic form in the course of which portions of the intestine sloughed. This condition sometimes occurs in the amoebic form of dysentery, cases of which sometimes last over two years.
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Dysentery'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/d/dysentery.html. 1915.
