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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

Sicknesses, in which they cast their Skins, each sickness lasting about 4. days, wherein they feed not at all; but grow clearer, shorter, and thicker.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

Sicknesses, deaths, losses, disappointments, partings, separations, ingratitude, slander,—all these are common things.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles

They are pretty quiet; they are like the Sicknesses….

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

"It's the least important of the Sicknesses," said Night.

From The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander