Historical Examples

• Among the well-known human diseases of protozoan origin are malaria, amoebic dysentery, and sleeping-sickness.

  American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick

  Jane A. Delano

• The black mass on the mountain came down like amoebic tentacles, met and coalesced, muttering and mumbling.

  Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940

  Various

• The chief cause of amoebic dysentery in the Philippines has undoubtedly been infected drinking water.

  The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2)

  Dean Conant Worcester

• And I got amoebic dysentery in Louisiana, and got very sick.

  Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)

  The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy