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Sicknesses like measles and smallpox would have burned through his six hundred men long before they reached the Mississippi.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Sometimes there remain in these Cases Sicknesses at Stomach, Reachings to vomit, a Bitterness in the Mouth, and some vertiginous Symptoms which seem to require a Vomit.

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

Already he has captured a third of my Mysteries, all my Terrors are afraid and dare not leave the house, my Ghosts have taken flight, the greater part of my Sicknesses are ill….

From The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

They look very ill, those Sicknesses of yours….

From The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Herewithal, wasting Sicknesses, especially Burning and Mortal Agues, have Shot the Arrows of Death in at our Windows.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton