Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.
I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.