Indian sickness

ep·i·dem·ic gan·gre·nous proc·ti·tis

a generally fatal disease affecting chiefly children in the tropics, characterized by gangrenous ulceration of the rectum and anus, accompanied by frequent watery stools and tenesmus. Synonym(s): bicho, caribi, Indian sickness

Indian sickness

Uncertain; also known as epidemic gangrenous proctitis, a condition of uncertain pathogenesis which has disappeared from the working parlance.