ailment

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October 12 Muti’s Ailment Said to Be Caused by Exhaustion and Stress Stomach pains have forced the conductor to withdraw from performances.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2010

Worst Ailment, worse than pneumonia or cancer, in that it handicaps or kills more people yearly, is the group of ailments called heart disease.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once upon a time there was a feeble little Ailment called "Cold-in-the-head," which was treated in the most contemptuous fashion by its relations.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

The Disorder is sometimes so very mild and slight, that Eruption appears with scarcely any Suspicion of the Child's having the least Ailment, and the Event is as favourable as the Invasion.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

One day the feeble little Ailment was wandering aimlessly about in search of a resting-place, when it came upon an enormous establishment thronged with thousands of working-men.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir