For example, in Partridge's tract, remedies were given for both greensickness and for an absence of bloody flux, but they were not regarded as the same, greensickness being a name used to describe the absence of menstruation in females and the patients requiring a bloody flux being identified as male.

99) The English soldiers were outnumbered six to one; they had spent three weeks marching round Picardy looking for the French army; they were frozen, starving and racked with the bloody flux, which killed a quarter of their numbers; the incessant rain had rusted their armour; and if, on the eve of battle, they broke the silence imposed by the king, they'd have had their right ears cut off.