make ill

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Most people were born at home and died at home, and medicine’s principal function was to make ill people as comfortable as possible while nature healed them or killed them.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2017

Nothing tends to make ill feeling more than having to do another's work; and, where there are many in a party, each one is apt to leave something for others to do.

From How to Camp Out by Gould, John Mead

“If the amiable devil should be moved to sacrifice now, I would be the nearest to his hand––think you he would make ill use of my youth and tenderness?”

From The Flute of the Gods by Ryan, Marah Ellis

For thine own good I would not have thee strive, nor make ill blood And shame about thee….

From The Trojan women of Euripides by Euripides

Thou say’st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings: Unquiet meals make ill digestions; 75 Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what’s a fever but a fit of madness?

From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George