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

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

From The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, William

But one may make ill use of hope, since the passion of hope, like the other passions, is subject to a mean and extremes.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Also, you noise abroad that my lord Arthur is slain, and that is not so, and therefore you will make ill work in the land.'

From The Book of Romance by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

This is certainly acting the part of an orator, and if in any respect he attacks the profession, it is on account of those who make ill use of eloquence.

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville