bowel-hivesn.Scottish a popular name for infantile enteritis and similar affections.
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1715 A. PennecuikGeogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale 7 The Rickets in Children, which they call the Bowel-hyve.
1863 Rept. Registrar Gen. Scot. ‘Bowel-hives’ (or ‘bull-hives’), the vernacular name under which is included enteritis, convulsions, diarrhœa, dysentery, and teething.