What is "ailment"

Usage examples of "ailment".

It depends, in fact, on the nature of the ailment, and the longer the symptoms have been present!

The wind is from the north, and it is known that is bad for an ailment of the eyes.

The acute ailment reproduced itself in her daughter in spite of an otherwise vigorous constitution.

All right, the autopsy will show the heart ailment and it will show his system having traces of the medicine, and nobody is going to be suspicious about that.

When you have any ordinary ailment, particularly of a feverish sort, eat nothing at all during twenty-four hours.

For a week the old man suffered from feverish symptoms, and, though he threw off the ailment, it was in a state of much feebleness that he at length resumed the ordinary tenor of his way.

Nor to yours, I daresay, since I remember you telling Papa you could stay by my bedside night and day because you had the same ailment as a child yourself.

But despite his acquittal the Latvian remained a dead Latvian and weighed on his mind like a ton of bricks, although he was said to have been a frail little man, afflicted with a stomach ailment to boot.

Moored to her bed, the ailing Lina Greff could neither escape nor leave me, for her ailment, though chronic, was not serious enough to snatch Lina, my teacher Lina, away from me prematurely.

There existed no ailment that could have fastened the greengrocer to his bed.

FDA falling down on the job when it came to safeguarding the purity of whatever remedy the ailment of the moment demanded.

There is no cure for the ailment that has so suddenly come over me and my doctor tells me that I have, at most, a few months more to live.

And it sets me thinking of those who have never had an ailment, up to a certain age, when the killing blow comes.

Long experience in the treatment of everyday ailments indicate that the most generally useful potency is the 6x and this is the potency usually recommended.

Some acute ailments are attended by greater risks of a relapse during convalescence, and this applies particularly to those affecting respiration.