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ill and weakened
Later in life, Martha Jefferson suffered from diabetes and ill health, and frequent childbirth further weakened her.
What incensed the people most against him was the way in which he put the king completely on one side ; and this feeling was all the stronger as, outside a very narrow court circle, nobody seems to have believed that Christian VII was really mad, but only that his will had been weakened by habitual ill usage ; and this opinion was confirmed by the publication of the cabinet order of 14 July 1771, appointing Struensee " gehejme kabinetsminister " or " Geheimekabinetsminister ", with authority to issue cabinet orders which were to have the force of royal ordinances, even if unprovided with the royal sign-manual.
However, those with a weakened immune system, such as AIDS patients or pregnant women, may become seriously ill, and it can occasionally be fatal.
Because of his very late accession to the throne he only had a few years to show his ability and he was weakened by ill health.
In a depleted, weakened condition, he takes ill and falls into a coma, and is believed to be dead.
After the 1971 Lin Biao incident, the military attempted to improve Peng's living conditions, but the years of deprivation and torture from 1967 – 1970 had seriously weakened his physical health, and from late 1972 until his death Peng was seriously ill, probably with tuberculosis, thrombosis, or both.
Clinton P. Anderson, the New Mexico senator who had protected the program, had become severely ill. Lyndon B. Johnson, another powerful advocate of human space exploration, had decided not to run for a second term and was considerably weakened.
Moreoever, while he was temporarily absent with his invalid wife, a youth living in his home ( a friend of his family ) committed suicide in his Barbizon cottage ; when he visited the Alps in 1863, making sketches of Mont Blanc, he became dangerously ill with inflammation of the lungs ; and when he returned to Barbizon he suffered from insomnia and became gradually weakened.
Also, increased use of outpatient treatment means people who are hospitalized are more ill and have more weakened immune systems than may have been true in the past.

ill and Song
In The Song of Bernadette, he played the ethically questionable psychiatrist who is hired to declare Bernadette mentally ill.
In 1971 she starred as " Joy Piccolo ", opposite Billy Dee Williams and James Caan in the successful TV movie Brian's Song, the true story of terminally ill Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo ( played by Caan ).
According to Song Dynasty sources, once the Emperor Xuanzong was gravely ill.
Among Fine's compositions are a violin sonata ; a string quartet ; Fantasia for String Trio ; Music for Piano ; Partita for Wind Quintet ; Toccata Concertante for Orchestra ; Notturno for Strings and Harp ; Serious Song, subtitled a " lament for string orchestra "; Diversions for piano and orchestra ; and the Symphony 1962, which premiered at Tanglewood less than two weeks before his untimely death following a heart attack ( Fine conducted the premiere when Charles Munch, who was originally to have conducted, fell ill ).
Once, Song Jiang contracts a tumor on his back and becomes seriously ill. Zhang Shun embarks on a long journey to seek the famous physician An Daoquan to cure Song Jiang.
When Song Jiang is leading the outlaws from Liangshan Marsh to attack Daming Prefecture, he contracts a tumor on his back and becomes seriously ill.
The elder Consort Song had become ill, and in her illness, she craved raw cuscuta, and she requested that her family bring them.

ill and soldiers
More than 86, 000 troops, 11, 000 administrative personnel and thousands of civilian porters actually completed the breakout ; the remainder, largely wounded or ill soldiers, continued to fight a delaying action after the main force had left, and then dispersed into the countryside.
In the late 1960s, she became seriously ill after a trip to Vietnam to entertain American soldiers.
In the trenches, natural selection was reversed: soldiers with a mild strain stayed where they were, while the severely ill were sent on crowded trains to crowded field hospitals, spreading the deadlier virus.
Several thousand United Nations soldiers became ill with " Korean haemorrhagic fever " ( now called HFRS ) during the Korean War.
On suffering no ill effects the soldiers also tried it with no ill effects, realising that it was dried milk.
Often hungry and ill, never well paid, under-equipped and only partially trained, the soldiers were held in contempt by their officers and had little reason to fight the Americans.
On the Argentine side, it was soon realised that the 7th Infantry Regiment Reconnaissance Platoon soldiers on the surrounding Wireless Ridge position were ill equipped to carry out their own patrolling.
Many of the Mongol soldiers suffered from bloody diarrhea ( plagues ) and Mongke Khan became ill.
The Romans were also troubled by rebellions among the soldiers and insurrections among the local tribes from about 207 BC when Scipio fell ill. Laelius's role during these insurrections is not clear as to whether he attempted to put down the rebellions and insurrections, or was absent.
He saved many ill soldiers by taking their beatings.
Most often, recruits or soldiers pretend to be mentally ill, due to very few individuals receiving Profile 21 on a non-psychological basis.
Yellow fever had spread through the U. S. Army before the surrender had taken place, and some 4, 000 U. S. soldiers were ill.
High officials, Sultanic Mamluks and soldiers were ordered-by the will of the ( ill Sultan )-to give oath to the Sultan, his heir Turanshah and the Atabeg Fakhr ad-Din Yussuf.
Augusta, who clearly abhorred war, founded the National Women's Association in 1864, which looked after wounded and ill soldiers and convened with Florence Nightingale for ideas.
On arrival at the medical barracks hospital in Scutari in 1854, Florence was appalled by the unsanitary conditions and high mortality rates among injured or ill soldiers.
Despite the high level of casualties amongst ordinary soldiers, supposedly no high-ranking leaders died on the journey, regardless of how ill or badly wounded they were.
By November, forty soldiers of the 126th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment were dead and about another sixty were ill with fevers.
Felix found Maximus alone, ill, and helpless, and hid him from soldiers in a vacant building.
In the United States, Dorothea Dix was instrumental in opening 32 state asylums to provide quality care for the ill. Dix also was in charge of the Union Army Nurses during the American Civil War, caring for both Union and Confederate soldiers.
) As of fall 902, Zhu Quanzhong had had Fengxiang under siege for about a year, but was unable to capture it, with his siege efforts hampered by rain and his soldiers becoming ill.
Ma then informed Li Maozhen that Zhu Quanzhong had already left, leaving only about 10, 000 ill soldiers to pretend to be still putting up a siege, and that even they would depart that night.
By spring 780, With Cui Youfu seriously ill at that point and Qiao having been removed by Emperor Dezong due to incompetence, Yang was solely in charge of the government, and he revived major military projects that Yuan had advocated until his downfall — to rebuild Yuan Prefecture ( 原州, in modern Guyuan, Ningxia ), formerly Tang territory but which had become part of the no man's land between territories held by Tang and Tufan, as a forward advance base for a campaign to recapture lands lost to Tufan ; and to conscript labor from the regions of the two capitals ( Chang ' an and Luoyang ) and Guanzhong to reopen Lingyang Aqueduct ( 陵陽渠, flowing through Bayan Nur, Inner Mongolia ) in order to promote agriculture in the region by soldiers.
The men said they saw the beating of mentally ill inmates and that another man was left brain damaged after a beating by soldiers as punishment for attempting suicide.

ill and were
Whatever the Hetman's ambitions, his colleagues were kept ill at ease.
The judge became ill just as the Colfax District Court convened, no substitute was brought in, no criminal cases heard, only 5 out of 122 cases docketed were tried, and court adjourned sine die after sitting a few days instead of the usual three weeks.
* 2001 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
These arrangements were imperiled by the ill will of Alfonso XI of Castile, who was, at the time, publicly mistreating his wife.
However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.
They were greeted in a hostile manner by the surrounding population and his sister and father fell dangerously ill.
Amok was officially classified as a psychiatric condition in 1849 based on the numerous reports and case studies which showed that the majority of individuals who committed amok were, in some sense, mentally ill.
Many of these letters were written to the children of her former governess Annie Carter Moore, particularly to her eldest son Noel who was often ill.
Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.
However Batutta reported that Arabs and Christians were safe, as their flesh was " unripe " and would cause the eater to fall ill.
For example, according to Erewhonian law, offenders are treated as if they were ill whilst ill people are looked upon as criminals.
Alejandra's aunt is said to have been associated with the two men when they were young, and even had an ill fated romantic relationship with Gustavo.
He fell seriously ill in February 1929 and was taken to the Hôpital Cochin in the 14th arrondissement, a free hospital where medical students were trained.
After affirming that he had no intention of taking up arms Fox was able to speak with Cromwell for most of the morning about the Friends and advised him to listen to God's voice and obey it so that, as Fox left, Cromwell " with tears in his eyes said, ' Come again to my house ; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other '; adding that he wished no more ill than he did to his own soul.
Because the construction efforts on Veliki Brijun Island were jeopardized by malaria outbreaks which occurred during summer months, and even Austrian steel industrialist Paul Kupelweiser himself fell ill with the disease, at the turn of the century Kupelweiser invited in Koch, who at the time was studying different forms of malaria and quinine-based treatments.
" The teetotaling Hepburn, in and out of character, fared worse in the difficult conditions, losing weight, and at one time, getting very ill. Bogart resisted Huston's insistence on using real leeches in a key scene where Bogart has to drag the boat through a shallow marsh, until reasonable fakes were employed.
During this time the Society lost about 120 people and others fell ill until conditions were improved and the swamps around the area were drained.
Rubik's experiments relied on Konstantin Korotkov's GDV device to produce images which were thought to visualize these qi biofields in chronically ill patients.
Both were ill with consumption.
Additionally, almost 1, 900 mentally ill patients from East Prussia and annexed areas of Poland were murdered there as well, in what was known as Action T4.
Almost by definition opponents of the Vikings were ill prepared to fight a force that struck at will, with no warning.
Sometimes militia units were found to be unprepared, ill supplied and unwilling.
These problems were epitomized in a story that Sanger would later recount in her speeches: while Sanger was working as a nurse, she was called to Sadie Sachs ' apartment after Sachs had become extremely ill due to a self-induced abortion.

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