Pus from Halsey's skin eruptions was used to inoculate approximately thirty Native American women and several white men living in or around the fort.
A young girl went to the hospital they worked in, suffering at first only from a small wound suppurating due to an infection.
Lorenç presented a certain vers figurat (figured verse), Sobre·l pus alt de tots los cims d'un arbre, to the Consistori del Gay Saber in Toulouse, a mystic allegory of Jesus Christ (Ihus lo salvaire), who is the auzel(l)et tot blanch (little all-white bird), and the Jews, who are a corps mot vils (most vile corpse).
Symptoms may range from mild abdominal discomfort to full-blown dysentery characterized by cramps, diarrhea, with slimy-consistent stools, fever, blood, pus, or mucus in stools or tenesmus.
The festering of an open or healing wound, causing the discharge of a yellowish pussy liquid, sometimes accompanied by a strong smell.