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  • "We don't have any medical reports on her muscular ailment," Sandy reported.  (source)
  • From medical journals he deduced that he was suffering from a newly identified ailment known as post-polio syndrome.  (source)
  • People would visit to pray for spiritual guidance, cures for their ailments and even happy marriages for their children.  (source)
    ailments = illnesses
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  • The ailments that would hound Mammy for the rest of her days began.  (source)
    ailments = illnesses
  • No ailment was found, and he investigated again.  (source)
    ailment = illness
  • Bloody depressing there with everybody going on about their ailments, hey!  (source)
    ailments = illnesses
  • A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.  (source)
    ailment = illness
  • In our family, while Papa puttered, Mama made her daily rounds to the mess halls, helping young mothers with their feeding, planning diets for the various ailments people suffered from.  (source)
    ailments = illnesses
  • I felt physically weak and broken down: but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind: a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears; no sooner had I wiped one salt drop from my cheek than another followed.  (source)
    ailment = illness
  • We learned how to bleed men to cure them of all ailments.  (source)
    ailments = illnesses
  • Besides, the physician might declare the ailment feigned; and Milady, after having lost the first trick, was not willing to lose the second.  (source)
    ailment = illness
  • Tuberculosis, malaria, dysentery, malnutrition, anemia, eye ailments, and festering wounds were widespread.†  (source)
    ailments = illnesses
  • It seems she's not well—a back ailment, I believe—and your grandfather is looking after her.†  (source)
    ailment = illness
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