bilious

• Cook was now taken seriously ill and was confined to his bed for several days by what he calls the bilious cholic, during which time “Mr. Patten, the surgeon, was to me, not only a skilful physician, but an affectionate nurse.” He recovered very slowly, and the want of fresh food told against him when it came to the question of gathering strength. —  The Life of Captain James Cook
• "Hm, blowing up for a bilious attack. —  Judy of York Hill
• To administer it in a case of bilious or typhoid fever, or in a case of pneumonia, pleuritis, gastritis, inflammatory rheumatism, or acute, and especially epidemic or malignant dysentery, or in a case of pulmonary phthisis, would probably be viewed by the most of physicians as the rashest empiricism, if not the next thing to madness. —  A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
• Everybody was asleep in that early fog; and when everybody woke up, it was done so quietly that the change was scarcely apparent But the "Merlin," British mailer, is to sail at noon for the Shakspeare Island, and breakfast must be discussed, and then once more I am with you, my anti-bilious ocean. —  Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
• "Why don't you take somethin You bet I'm bilious--the world looks plumb ja'ndiced!" —  The Fighting Shepherdess

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