_bona (firma, prospera) valetudine_[1] _esse_ or _uti_ (_vid._ sect.
VI. 8., note _uti..._)—to enjoy good health.
_valetudini consulere, operam dare_—to take care of one's health.
_firma corporis constitutio_ or _affectio_—a good constitution.
_infirma, aegra valetudine esse_ or _uti_—to be ill, weakly.
_in morbum incidit_—he fell ill.
_aegrotare coepit_—he fell ill.
_morbo tentari_ or _corripi_—to be attacked by disease.
_morbo afflīgi_—to be laid on a bed of sickness.
_lecto teneri_—to be confined to one's bed.
_vehementer, graviter aeogratare, iacēre_—to be seriously ill.
_gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari_—to be seriously ill.
_leviter aegrotare, minus valere_—to be indisposed.
_aestu et febri iactari_—to have a severe attack of fever.
_omnibus membris captum esse_[2]—to be affected by disease in every
limb; to be paralysed.
_ex pedibus laborare, pedibus aegrum esse_—to have the gout.
_pestilentia_ (not _pestis_) _in urbem (populum) invadit_—the plague
breaks out in the city.
_animus relinquit aliquem_—a man loses his senses, becomes unconscious.
_morbus ingravescit_[3]—the disease gets worse.
_morbo absūmi_ (Sall. Iug. 5. 6)—to be carried off by a disease.
_assidēre aegroto_ (Liv. 25. 26)—to watch by a sick man's bedside.
_aegrotum curare_—to treat as a patient (used of a doctor).
_curationes_—method of treatment.
_aegrotum sanare_ (not _curare_)—to cure a patient.
_ex morbo convalescere_ (not _reconvalescere_)—to recover from a
disease.
_e gravi morbo recreari_ or _se colligere_—to recruit oneself after a
severe illness.
_melius ei factum est_—he feels better.
_valetudinem (morbum) excusare_[4] (Liv. 6. 22. 7)—to excuse oneself
on the score of health.
_valetudinis excusatione uti_—to excuse oneself on the score of health.
[1] _valetudo_ is a neutral term = state of health. _sanitas_ =
soundness of mind, reason—e.g. _ad sanitatem reverti_, to recover
one's reason.
[2] Note _auribus, oculis, captum esse_, to be deaf, blind; _mente
captum esse_, to be mad.
[3] The comparative and superlative of _aeger_ and _aegrotus_ are not
used in this connection, they are replaced by such phrases as
_vehementer, graviter aegrotare, morbus ingravescit_, etc.
[4] But _se excusare alicui_ or _apud aliquem_ (_de_ or _in aliqua
re_) = to excuse oneself to some one about a thing.