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So you're saying the bowmen were just dropping loads while standing there shooting bows?
Yes, "in extreme cases, over a litre per hour" of diarrhoea.
One other thing to take from this is when you read "so-and-so died of dysentry" it means "so-and-so shat themselves to death".
E.g.
The true Archers of Loaf...
god war was so much more fun back then
When you gotta go...