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Definition of Ailments
1. ailment [n] - See also: ailment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ailments
Literary usage of Ailments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"Ocular ailments. § 166. Ear Troubles. § 167. Nose and Throat Obstructions. § 168.
Teeth. § 169. ... Other Physical ailments. § 164. General Considerations. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"Most serious ailments of live-stock should receive the attention of a skilled
... Before discussing some of the common ailments and diseases that affect ..."
3. What a Young Wife Ought to Know by Emma Frances Angell Drake (1902)
"Little ailments. —Nursing Babies Affected by Condition of Mother. ... I SPEAK of
ailments of children not diseases, since this is in no sense a "Doctor Book ..."
4. School Health Administration by Louis Win Rapeer (1913)
"Several hundred different names for the various ailments occurred in the ...
There are a number of classifications of human ailments but their bases are all ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
"XXVI On Slight ailments; their Nature and Treatment. ... Among them ¡ire
peculiarities of the tongue in slight ailments ; offensive breath; nausea; ..."
6. What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know by Emma Frances Angell Drake (1902)
"ATTENDANT ailments AND DISEASES. Women at Middle Life Divided into Four Classes.
... Permanent Disappearance of Many ailments.— Numerous Attendant Benefits ..."
7. Rowing by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann, Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1897)
"I may preface what I have to say about ailments by stating, as emphatically as
it can be stated, that every man who proposes to take part in a race ought, ..."
8. Bismarck's Table-talk by Otto Bismarck, Charles Lowe (1895)
"ailments AND EPIGRAMS. IT was about this time (1880) that the Prince ... During one
or two sessions, indeed, his physical ailments compelled him to abstain ..."