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Example sentences for "serious illness"

  • In this condition they have their little ups and downs and occasionally a serious illness, which too often proves fatal.

  • It may take two or three years, yes even twenty or thirty years, before the overeating results in serious illness, but the results are certain, and in the meanwhile the individual is never up to par.

  • We should expect many cases of serious illness to follow them, and such is the case.

  • The use of stale vegetables is known to have been the cause of serious illness.

  • Meat should not be kept until decomposition sets in, as by the putrefaction of the albuminous elements certain organic poisons are generated, and flesh partaken of in this condition is liable to result in serious illness.

  • After the fright you gave me, while at the club dance, that evening after your arrival at Solaris, I thought you were ticketed for a long, serious illness.

  • Perhaps one individual in fifty, is so constituted that homesickness becomes a serious illness.

  • My mother was confined to her bed with what proved to be a serious illness.

  • If there is no serious illness present, and no serious cardiac disease causing the condition, and a patient is known to have an overloaded stomach or bowels, an emetic or a briskly acting cathartic is the best possible treatment.

  • Not infrequently a heart suffering from fibrosis acts perfectly until some sudden exertion, as lifting, running or serious illness causes it suddenly to become weak.

  • This condition is frequent in children, and is noticed in neurotic adults and sometimes during convalescence from a serious illness.

  • On the other hand, strychnin in the low blood pressure of serious illness, such as pneumonia, by no means always raises the blood pressure.

  • Again (accompanied by Madame Oury) he gave Concerts in all the principal towns of the Rhine, till they arrived in Holland, where Madame Oury was attacked by a serious illness, which interrupted a number of professional engagements.

  • On quitting this last city for Petersburgh, he was seized with a serious illness, in a little Russian village, and was detained there more than two months.

  • Here he was seized with a serious illness, which necessitated his return home and prevented him taking part in Guiseā€™s victories at Vimory and Auneau.

  • I believe there is some dreadful trouble on her mind; and I am afraid, from what I see of her, that she is on the eve of a serious illness.

  • I almost feared, owing to my serious illness, that I would be prevented from having the advantage of seeing you, but I am glad to say that by God's mercy I am well again.

  • Serious Illness of the Prince Following his return from foreign travel and the fulfilment of a brief round of public functions and duties came the now historic and really eventful illness of the Prince of Wales.

  • During a serious illness, the portion of the nail which is then forming suffers in its nutrition, and instead of going on normally to almost perfect transparency, it remains opaque.

  • Not infrequently this white bar will enable you to ask a patient the question, "Did you not have a serious illness of some sort two, three, or six months ago?

  • It was in 1880, when the great statesman, having won the most brilliant triumph of his life, and finally defeated his great rival, Lord Beaconsfield, was struck down by serious illness a few weeks after he had regained power.

  • To dream about your kidneys, foretells you are threatened with a serious illness, or there will be trouble in marriage relations for you.

  • If she is dressed in black or white and looks pale or ghastly, serious illness or accidents are predicted.

  • If they are applied to you for medicinal purposes, you will have a serious illness tn your family (if you escape yourself).

  • If the implements are broken, you will be threatened with death or serious illness of relatives or friends, or failure n business.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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