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

The following correspondence, clearly intended for the Editor of The Daily Ailment, has found its way into our letter-box.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 15, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

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

Never was there any Interruption in the Hours prescrib'd for his Majesty's Exercises, unless he labor'd under some Ailment.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von