Within a week of the explosion the regiment ordered new instruments and scarlet uniforms.
Brighter still are the crimson and carmine, both of which, before the invention of synthetic dye, were obtained from the dried body of the scarlet grain insect, al-qirmiz.
Bede may have wondered why only imported, (supposedly) whelk-dyed fabrics were scarlet, but it would be easy to assume a wider range from an exotic whelk.
Prendick's fussy scientific vocabulary cannot disguise the implication that life in general is an inhuman(e) affair "scarlet" with blood and, because inseparable from non-life, of no definitive status.
The first statistical compilation based on these revised inventories related to 1866 and focused on just six diseases : smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, typhus, angina diphtheria, and cholera.
War, famine, epidemics of typhus, cholera and scarlet fever, atrocities committed on every side, all combined to render families prostrate, in both cities and countryside.
Jalland focuses on two case studies of families violently struck by scarlet fever.
Deaths from ' contagious diseases of childhood ' like measles and scarlet fever show a spring incidence.
