summer complaint
Example Sentences
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It is often moaned out when the child is ill with "summer complaint" or other intestinal disturbances.
From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
The best first step is to ask questions that they should be able to answer: What causes cholera morbus or summer complaint?
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
Delight in summer, complaint of winter--this is the fundamental chord struck again and again; there is scarcely any trace of blending the feelings of the lover with those of Nature.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
These troubles occur most frequently during the summer months, especially with infants and children, as in cholera infantum and summer complaint.
From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell
Heretofore the baby has been expected to cry and to have summer complaint before anybody worried about the treatment it received.
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
