Bloody flux

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Blood´y flux`

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Gerard describes the effect of Darnel poisoning as resembling '…falling intoxication, followed by the vomiting, verbal nonsense, tremors and finally the bloody flux'.

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Reading about "putrescent juices," the "black vomit" and the "bloody flux"--or the purging and bloodletting undertaken to cure them--is perhaps best not done on a full stomach.

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For example, in Partridge's tract, remedies were given for both greensickness and for an absence of bloody flux, but they were not regarded as the same, greensickness being a name used to describe the absence of menstruation in females and the patients requiring a bloody flux being identified as male.