bloody flux

noun

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

It cannot be digested; therefore it causeth the belly to swell, and a kind of bloody flux.

I am just recovering from a weeks sickness—fever and bloody flux—and I dont believe I weigh ninety pounds.

And I never did see the like of bloody flux among the children, and the scarlet fever too.

But we are not to judge of the amount of dysentery from the entries under the name of bloody flux alone.

Thus in 1717, special mention is made of a fatal bloody flux in Lorn, Argyllshire.

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