liver-complaint

Holland, the widow of a merchant, and suffering from a liver-complaint contracted in Java.

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They lingered long, and their malady was called a disease of the lungs; or they fell suddenly, and it was a case of apoplexy; or they were greatly swollen, and it was considered dropsy; they lost their powers of digestion, and were said to be troubled with dyspepsia; every vital function refused its natural action, and the poor victim was treated for a liver-complaint.

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People will say you have the liver-complaint, or the consumption, or something.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

I remember Abner Seaforth did; but then he was always narrow-chested, and had the liver-complaint, or something.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

They have known how to appreciate his sketches of East Indian life, so vivid, picturesque, and imaginative that they could make "Griffins" feel twinges of liver-complaint, and so true that we have heard them pronounced "incomparable" by men familiar with India.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

In our self-exploiting nineteenth century, with its melancholy liver-complaint, how serene and high he seems!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

At first they thought he had small-pox, and doctored him for that; and then they thought it was liver-complaint, and doctored him for that; and then it was bilious fever, and then it was typhus fever; and so it went on, and I really can't believe any of them understood anything about it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

Sometimes, in summer, while going on my rounds among the villages I used to meet on the highway and on the cross-roads passersby of a miserable aspect, persons with liver-complaint who were taking the waters at the neighbouring cure.

Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

There he was tryin 'to rob me o' the use o 'my legs an' about fifteen hundred a year for expenses an 'build me up into a fat man with indigestion an' liver-complaint.

Keeping up with Lizzie Irving Bacheller 1904

The amount of exercise of body and mind I have gone thro 'has astonished myself, and proves, I think, clearly enough, that I have no "liver-complaint," whatever other devilries I may have.

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893