How To Use Infirm In A Sentence

I sat there in the infirmary watching the nurses run about, taking blood and putting in tube after tube trying to save him.
In 1865 a medical magazine set up a special commission to inquire into London workhouse infirmaries.
Pay a visit to the camp infirmary, get your clothes deloused, or just park yourself in the latrine and fight that nasty case of amoebic dysentery you picked up along the way - it's up to you.
The body was washed and prepared for burial by the women of the family (or by the monastic infirmarer, in the case of a monk or nun), and either shrouded or placed in a coffin.
In places where there is no water for farming, men migrate to urban areas in search of work leaving women behind to fend for the old, and the infirm and the children.

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Soon the hotel began to resemble an infirmary, with dozens of guests in various stages of illness strewn around the lobby every night.
By reason of which infirmity he was not able so distinctly and clearly to discern the points and blots of the dice as formerly he had been accustomed to do; whence it might very well have happened, said he, as old dim-sighted Isaac took Jacob for Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Too early death, or severe infirmity, or excessive distance could eliminate any possibility of a significant relationship.
We'd rather believe that health care is all about healing the sick, helping the infirm and comforting the afflicted.
A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public – house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
As things stood at the beginning of 1990, Mrs Adam's life was reasonably settled and happy, taking into account her age and physical infirmity.
our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses
Too distrustful to delegate his responsibility to his ministers, he was too infirm of will to strike out and follow a consistent course for himself.
Public general hospital originated in the almshouse infirmaries established as early as colonial times by local governments to care for the poor.
The infirmary, or hospital, was across the rectangle of stone walkways from the stables.
Her grandmother is elderly and infirm.
That is to say it did not stem from any inherent infirmity or weakness or deficiency.
Today, a spokeswoman for the hospital trust which operates the infirmary confirmed that the source had now been identified.
Three categories of poor were subsequently recognized: sturdy beggars or vagabonds, regarded as potential trouble-makers, the infirm, and the deserving unemployed.
Thou takest all advantages against me; old scores are called over, every infirmity is animadverted upon, and no sooner is a false step taken than I am beaten for it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Sin has much more weakened man's will than darkened his intellect, and the rebellion of the sensual appetite, which we call concupiscence, does indeed disturb the understanding, but still it is against the will that it principally stirs up sedition and revolt: so that the poor will, already quite infirm, being shaken with the continual assaults which concupiscence directs against it, cannot make so great progress in divine love as reason and natural inclination suggest to it that it should do. Treatise on the Love of God
We are here to protect and assist the weak and infirm.
Quem infirmum libido solicitat, aut avaritia, aut honores? nemini invidet, neminem miratur, neminem despicit, sermone maligno non alitur. Anatomy of Melancholy
Considering her numerous labours, duties, journeys, sicknesses, and infirmities, is it not surprising how she could find time to carry on such an extensive correspondence? The Letters of St. Teresa
For besids ye eminente dangers of this viage, which are no less then deadly, an infirmitie of body Hath seased me, which will not in all licelyhoode leave me till death. The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
Cherry sat across from them in the prison's infirmary, sipping slowly at her cup of warm milk.
He was over eighty years of age, infirm and totally blind.
The size of a small hospital, the infirmary had more than enough resources to tend to the wounded, and they were well taken care of.
The publication has only 163 pages, but it is full of the joy found in people when one sympathetically understands the oddness of age and mental infirmity.
We are here to protect and assist the weak and infirm.
He was referred straight to Leeds General Infirmary and had an operation to correct the fault.
What worries me about assisted suicide is the emotional pressure that could potentially be put on the ill or infirm. Times, Sunday Times
No rest for the elected, not with economic infirmity set to color the Obama presidency from day one and a need to address the psychological and policy aspects of the financial crisis as quickly and as much as any uninaugurated leader can. President-Elect in Name,
She lives with her grandmother who is elderly and infirm.
This is what a new £7.4million extension to Bradford Royal Infirmary will look like when the prefabricated sections are slotted together.
And, yes, with age for some people comes infirmity, but that infirmity is based on individual factors and not on a physical absolute that, at a “pre-set” age, one is automatically old and unable to function. June « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
One other category springs to mind - those who are too young, old, sick and infirm to move at all.
Nuns also provided cheap personnel for preschools, infirmaries, sanitariums, asylums, soup kitchens, and orphanages, especially in the North.
He was finally stretchered off by paramedics and taken to Leeds General Infirmary.
However, not only the martyrs but also the confessors bore their tribulations and infirmities with great patience, and have to this day.
The salpingectomy was done when she came into the infirmary for treatment of an irritable bowel. Second Glance
The bothering and begging are exhaustive and unremitting, and the beggars world-beating in their decrepitude and infirmity.
The design of Christianity is to soften and meeken the spirit, to teach us the art of obliging and true complaisance; not to be servants to the lust of any, but to the necessities and infirmities of our brethren -- to comply with all that we have to do with as fare as we can with a good conscience. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
There are the parish vestry, the parish infirmary, the parish surgeon, the parish officers, the parish beadle.
If no skyborn messenger, heaven looking through his eyes; then neither is it a chimera with his systems, crotchets, cants, fanaticisms, and last infirmity of noble minds, full of misery, unrest and ill-will; but a substantial, peaceable, terrestrial man. Paras. 25-49
[Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
Exposure in the pillory was a favourite prescription, a kind of judicial panacea, to which all sorts of the morally infirm were introduced in turn. The Customs of Old England
Sometimes a partner has died and the other is too old or infirm to go out and buy food. Times, Sunday Times
There were also in Baghdad numerous colleges of learning, hospitals, infirmaries for both sexes and lunatic asylums.
In fact, he was driven to the Royal Infirmary at an undramatic speed because he is not registered with a doctor in Edinburgh.
Himself an indefatigable collector of books, the possessor of a library as valuable as it was interesting, a library containing volumes obtained only at the cost of great personal sacrifice, he was in the most active sympathy with the disease called bibliomania, and knew, as few comparatively poor men have known, the half-pathetic, half-humorous side of that incurable mental infirmity. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
With bitter physic purge the bitter bile," [730] so vexed and bitter are you at people's weaknesses and infirmities, which is not reasonable in you. Plutarch's Morals
Even then, while Hezbollah and Hamas launched their rockets from nurseries and infirmaries, Israel behaved with unparalleled restraint, doing everything in its power to forewarn civilians of coming offensives and then using state-of-the-art munitions with laser-like precision to reduce, as much as humanly possibly, collateral civilian casualties. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Tom Friedman Slanders Israel
The 24-year-old from Heywood was rushed to Rochdale Infirmary but has now been transferred to Wythenshawe Hospital where there are specialists in microsurgery who are attempting to save the victim's remaining leg.
When she finally left Quarriers, aged almost 17, she eventually secured a job as a nursing auxiliary with the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow.
Its origin, and its method of financing, almost inevitably led to it becoming effectively a horse infirmary.
The rest were made up of unfortunate women of the vilest and most ragged description, aged itinerants, with features seared with famine, bleared eyes, dropping jaws, shivering limbs, and all the mortal signs of hopeless and aidless, and, worst of all, breadless infirmity. Pelham — Complete
The Windsor unit cares for seven residents who are mentally infirm and are suffering from Alzheimer's Disease or other types of dementia.
faintness of heart and infirmity of purpose
Common-wealth wee further charge and command by the vertue of our absolute authority, that no man bee found winking, or pincking, or nodding, much lesse snorting, upon paine of forfaiting twelve pence, as for infirmity. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
The study was approved by the Western Infirmary ethics committee and each patient gave informed written consent.
That's generally a good indication of mental infirmity.
Her name was Netta, which is a name that I still love to this day, and she was a paramedic at the infirmary.
In the meantime, the light of the room also has particular demand by force to the curtain infirmly .
He was taken in a coma to the intensive care unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
The district hospital was built to replace the 220-year-old city infirmary in Fisherton Street, the geriatric unit at Newbridge and run-down buildings at Odstock.
Anyway, she started secretly treating drudges at night after she learned that most infirmaries consist of a first-aid kit and a supply of heavy sedatives.
Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden sent thousands of gifts and photo-cards with pictures of the princess and her children with Christmas greetings to war prisoners recovering in infirmaries. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
If outflung arms and exaggerated rolling steps suggested pilgrimage, later passages saw the apparently infirm passed forward from one dancer to another.
His disease was grievous: He had an infirmity, a weakness; he had lost the use of his limbs, at least on one side, as is usual in palsies. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
That is to say it did not stem from any inherent infirmity or weakness or deficiency.
Guillaume enrageait de ne pouvoir battre Luxembourg, et se moquait des infirmités de son adversaire. French Conversation and Composition
I do not know precisely what 'cadger' means, but I imagine it to be a character like me, liable to headache, to sea-sickness, to all the infirmities 'that flesh is heir to,' and a few others besides; the friends and relations of cadgers should therefore use all soft persuasions to induce them to remain at home. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
With the com unit in hand, she called the infirmary to ask how Kamiton was. Freedoms Challenge
The prior, or he who holds his power, if the sickness of the brother requires immediate assistance, shall tell the infirmarer.
We now have a growing number of elderly and infirm people being locked away. Times, Sunday Times
Several times he wrote his name onto the list for sick call, and waited to be escorted to the infirmary. SUPERBUG
Perjury, oppression, subornation, fraud, panderism, and the like infirmities, were amongst the most excusable arts they had to mention, and for these I gave, as it was reasonable, great allowance. Gulliver's Travels
Christ delights even in the saints on earth, notwithstanding their weaknesses and manifold infirmities, which is a good reason why we should. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
It is certainly possible for an anxious straining ingenuity to _imagine_ such cases; and where is the rule of law, which, in the infirmity of human institutions, cannot be shown capable of occasioning _possible_ mischief and injustice? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
That a man may, through infirmity, fall into some such sin as for it to be amoved from a church society (that amotion being an ordinance of Christ for his recovery from that sin), I know not that it can be reasonably questioned. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Withering first settled into medical practice in Stafford, working as a physician in the county infirmary.
Paramedics attended the scene and she was taken to Blackburn Royal Infirmary suffering from concussion.
This is non-cosmetic, postponable but not exactly elective surgery; wait too long and one could end up in the E.R. getting the surgery and suffer lifetime infirmity ordeath. The Volokh Conspiracy » Failing To Understand How Markets Work:
He provided soup kitchens for the sick and infirm. Christianity Today
Pis dans project zero tu massacres pas des infirmieres a coup de pied de biche (oui le pied de biche c super efficace sur les infirmieres, bien mieux que la carabine!!) mais tu prends des fantomes en Photo!! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
The word of the gospel is preached by men like ourselves, men of like passions and infirmities with others: We have this treasure in earthen vessels. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
However, real-time television is for the elderly, infirm or life avoidant. Times, Sunday Times
I being a Scholasticall panion, obtestate your sublimitie, to extoll mine infirmitie. The English Is Coming!
Ask infirmly infirmly wash lavatory fluid to you can use gastric lavage?
It not, it makes the person being touched feel either old and infirm or diminished and patronised. Times, Sunday Times
He methodised and regulated versification, insisting on rich and exact rhymes, condemning all licence and infirmity of structure, condemning harshness of sound, inversion, hiatus, negligence in accommodating the cesura to the sense, the free gliding of couplet into couplet. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
Norwegian scabies occurs predominantly in elderly, infirm, or immunosuppressed people and in those with mental illness.
Professor Paul Finan, from Leeds General Infirmary, said possible reasons included: "the degree of surgical specialisation, how guidelines were followed, the quality of high-dependency units after-care surgery, anaesthetic services and whether the surgery was laparoscopic, which is less invasive. BBC News - Home
In the postsurgical wards of the Glasgow infirmary, Lister had again and again seen an angry red margin begin to spread out from the wound and then the skin seemed to rot from inside out, often followed by fever, pus, and a swift death a bona fide “suppuration”. The Emperor of All Maladies
The survey was carried out at Glasgow Royal Infirmary by Glasgow University academics.
She said the funeral was due to take place at 1pm next Wednesday at Pocklington Church, with a plate collection for Leeds General Infirmary.
Is it any wonder that the elderly or the infirm want the right to consider taking their own lives? Times, Sunday Times
We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity.
Doctors at Leicester Royal Infirmary are to assess the benefits of giving magnesium to heart attack victims immediately after an attack.
Police are also carrying out medical reviews of 18 other deaths at the infirmary and St James's Hospital in Leeds.
Intrans autem sacerdos infirmariam dicat pax huix domui. et cetera fiant sicut notatum est in ordinario: ita tamen quod abstersiones cum stupis fiant vel a priorissa. uel ab aliqua sorore. cui iniunxerit. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
During their slow, toilful walks she appeared to be dragging with her for a penance the burden of that infirm bulk. To-morrow, by Joseph Conrad
Dido talked incessantly about herself and all I had to do, as I listened to the catalogue of her infirmities, was to exude sympathy. ULTIMATE PRIZES
Mrs Hardie had been taken to the infirmary in an ambulance.
At Rome he fulfilled the humble office of infirmarian in the convent of Ara Coeli; and his biographers record the miraculous cure of many whom he attended, through his pious intercession. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
The occasion of her return to her parents was probably his increasing age and infirmity, as the only impression she retained of him in after life was that of a somewhat crusty and ill-tempered old man, with a huge bobwig, who always laid in bed. Religion in Earnest
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
We are sure they do not want to be seen as some infirm, incapable, old couple.
We are here to protect and assist the weak and infirm.
Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such motions as men sometimes would, but cannot, if either they have not the limbs, or these be bound with bands, weakened with infirmity, or any other way hindered. The Confessions
Carandiru is more measured, and even stately, in the way its old lags - fundamentally respectful - troop through the doctor's infirmary and recount their autobiographies.
After further study, he also took a clinical assistant post in ophthalmology at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
He was still feeling a bit groggy, probably due to a sedative given to him by a nurse at the infirmary.
Madge, infirm of purpose, and easily reconciled to the present scene, whatever it was, began soon to talk with her usual diffuseness of ideas. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
In 1246 an inquisition jury attributed the foundation to the Conqueror and identified the recipients of hospitality as the poor, sick and infirm who had no homes but slept in the streets at night.
Cum autem simul communicari et inungi aliquam oportuerit. soror aliqua crucem portet. et frater socius sacram deferat unccionem: et primo fiat communio. deinde inunccio. et in isto casu semper remaneat conuentus in infirmaria usque ad complectionem officii. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
Nuns also provided cheap personnel for preschools, infirmaries, sanitariums, asylums, soup kitchens, and orphanages, especially in the North.
But there's a big difference between "elderly" and "infirm" - as the 70-year-old woman on the spin bike next to mine would quickly point out. NYT > Home Page
Item si aliquam itta infirmari contigerit quod ad locum consuetum communioni uenire non possit. si oporteat eam communicari: sacerdos ... corpus chrisi deferens. reuerenter precedentibus eum duabus sororibus cum cereis, et una cum aqua benedicta. et alia campanellam deferente: associantibus nihilominus aliqubus de maturioribus sororibus ad infirmariam uadat. et infirmam communicet. prout in ordinario continetur. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
Down to Santiago, where a telegram waited him from the Emperor of Brazil announcing his election to the Acadèmie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, a great honor about which Agassiz remarks: The distinction unhappily is usually a brevet of infirmity, or at least of old age, and in my case it is to a falling house that the diploma is addressed. Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
One of their first victims was an aged nun of the Simiane family, canoness of the convent of Bollene, accused of being a counter-revolutionist; so lame and infirm, that her executioners were forced to carry her to the scaffold. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
Others were labelled infirm, defined as the deserving poor, and provided for by benevolent asylums or charities.
Each may provide assistance in times of infirmity or sickness or in the provision of baby-sitting or other services.
She was admitted to Leeds General Infirmary where doctors ran a series of tests, including checks for CJD, before they were able to diagnose her.
Maybe in some life yet to come he would be rich, as a compensation for his present infirmities. TANK OF SERPENTS
William Warden was appointed porter to the infirmary; the regulations stated that he was to have bread and cheese for breakfast.
There are few offenders more despicable than criminals who prey on the elderly and infirm.
He was over eighty years of age, infirm and totally blind.
There needs to be a shuttle bus service to cut the number of vehicles going to the Infirmary.
He was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary where his mood swung erratically.
There are also plans for an eight-bed care facility for elderly, mentally infirm residents, which will be run by Pembrokeshire County Council.
[K] Natura infirmitatis humanae, tadiora sunt remedia quam mala; & ut corpora lente augescunt, cito extinguuntur, sic ingenia studiaque oppresseris, facilius quam revocaveris; subit quippe ipsius inertiae dulcedo, et invisa primo desidia postremo amatur. 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation
Moses; and he wrote not merely amid the cares and duties of a great public office, with other labors which might be called Herculean, but even amid pains of disease and the infirmities of age, -- when rest, to most people, is the greatest boon and solace of their lives. Beacon Lights of History
Norris, originally from Scotland where he trained, began work as a staff nurse in orthopaedics at the infirmary in December 2001.
Many owners have found they were no longer able to use them as they got older because ill health or infirmity prevented them from travelling.
The love of it clung to him to the last moments of his life; but tho he felt that last infirmity of noble minds, never did there breathe a human being who had a more lofty disdain for the shallow and treacherous popularity which is to be courted by subserviency, and purchased at the expense of principle and duty. On Catholic Relief
Cum autem simul communicari et inungi aliquam oportuerit. soror aliqua crucem portet. et frater socius sacram deferat unccionem: et primo fiat communio. deinde inunccio. et in isto casu semper remaneat conuentus in infirmaria usque ad complectionem officii. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
Miss Nelson had to be put on a ventilator in the high-dependency unit of the Manchester Royal Infirmary and stayed in hospital for more than three weeks.
Now I read that being old and infirm is no bar to voting Obama, not even having advanced Alzheimers is a bar. Archive 2008-11-01
But one day Flibbertigibbet -- so Sister Angelica called the little girl from her first coming to the Asylum, and the name clung to her -- was sent to the infirmary in the upper story because of a slight illness; while there she made the discovery of the "Marchioness. Flamsted quarries
Cum autem simul communicari et inungi aliquam oportuerit. soror aliqua crucem portet. et frater socius sacram deferat unccionem: et primo fiat communio. deinde inunccio. et in isto casu semper remaneat conuentus in infirmaria usque ad complectionem officii. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
The study was approved by the Western Infirmary Ethical Committee and all patients gave written, informed consent.
For chanceful and perverted individualist Kenneth (Andrew Lee Potts), chronicle at the infirmary where he entireness is a program of long torments from a assemble of enterprising scrutiny students. Planet Malaysia
We are here to protect and assist the weak and infirm.
There are other possibilities: insufficient exercise, unsuitable food, old age and infirmity, or genetic weaknesses.
Car park security staff jobs have been axed at Bradford Royal Infirmary - as hospital bosses try to solve the hospital's cash crisis.
He was referred to top surgeons at the infirmary after one of the aneurysms showed signs of significantly worsening.
Keenly sensitive to these insults, Raglan had to grapple with a French command whose sense of purpose seemed infirm.
A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, accross the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand: first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public-house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
Inside the towns, quarantine went into effect, with the sick isolated in prisonlike infirmaries called lazarettos.
Because many of them are infirm, some suffering from mental illness, special prisons are being built or fitted with stairlifts and other facilities fitting to the disabilities of the elderly.
Dum quis decumbit infirmus figitur lancea iuxta illum in terra, et cum appropinquauerit morti, nullus remanet ìuxta ipsum, cum verò mortuus esse scitur, confestim in campis, et cum lancea sepelitur. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Joseph turned and headed in the other direction, down past the infirmary and the town midden. THE LONGEST WAY HOME
The reason that “sicklist” prayers are so sickly is that they do not often truly “hunger and thirst for righteousness.” yet at the same time they are appropriate, for a longing for Shalom, a longing for peace, includes the holistic restoration of all that was lost in the fall, including physical illness and infirmaties. Uncommon Prayer – Grasping for the Wind
Other franchises advised to mind their Ps and Qs due to the infirm are the Chicago Bulls FOXSports.com News
When he sent the old and infirm soldiers home, Eurylochus, a citizen of Aegae, got his name enrolled among the sick, though he ailed nothing, which being discovered, he confessed he was in love with a young woman named Telesippa, and wanted to go along with her to the seaside. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Fans are encouraged to attend in their kit and a collection will be taken for the Burns Unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
Ex alto despicientes aliqui prae timore contremiscunt, caligant, infirmantur; sic singultus, febres, morbi comitiales quandoque sequuntur, quandoque recedunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
He sang about grannies in relation to public transport, enormous jobbies and wellington boots and managed to rhyme the word pleurisy with infirmary. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
It is just as meaningful to speak of levels of vitality and healthfulness as of debility and infirmity.
Mr Hesketh waited two hours in the infirmary's accident and emergency department for an X-ray.
Deafness and failing eyesight are among the infirmities of old age.
The Bradford Royal Infirmary deserves to be proud of the way all its patients are treated and the respect shown to everyone.
He also had two stitches put in a wound to his scalp after being taken by ambulance to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
He proceeds to illustrate the "glorying in infirmities" (2Co 11: 30). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Old age and infirmity had begun to catch up with him.
One thing is clear - the New Testament teaches that believers will suffer physical infirmity in this fallen world.
Heaven and our Lady assoilzie him of his sins, and abridge the penance of his mortal infirmities! — The Abbot
In other cases, once the elder of the two becomes infirm, the difference in age may cause resentments. Times, Sunday Times
It is stirring to see these veterans, many aged, some infirm, answering the call of duty one last time, to defend their honor and that of their fallen comrades.
The organisation aims to provide financial and practical assistance to people in the Cricklade area who need support because of illness or infirmity.
A human infirmity, though; and I'm feeling for the poor sinner myself being tempted -- that is to say inclining -- but thank the Lord for his strengthening arm ---- The Manxman A Novel - 1895
_in ano_, or some such other secret disease, as the common conuersant can hardly discouer, and the Phisition either not speedily heale, or not honestly bewray? of which infirmities the scoffing _Pasquil_ wrote, _Vleus vesicae renum dolor in peno scirrus_. The Arte of English Poesie
Passers-by came to his aid and he was taken to Leeds General Infirmary where his condition was described as ‘serious but stable’.
There were not even stretchers or wheelchairs to carry the sick and infirm.
A British doctor, assisted by 3 medical orderlies, is attached permanently to the Camp, and a German civilian doctor visits the Infirmary 3 times a week. Work Camp 10030 GW, Lavamund
Such was the milieu in which nineteenth-century gymnastics and calisthenics systems offered women palliatives for infirmities that were equated with consumptive female invalidism.
Dum quis decumbit infirmus figitur lancea iuxta illum in terra, et cum appropinquauerit morti, nullus remanet 靧xta ipsum, cum ver� mortuus esse scitur, confestim in campis, et cum lancea sepelitur. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
In that same year a Fever Hospital, Infirmary and Dispensary were incorporated into the workhouse buildings and the Saint John of God nuns began nursing in the hospital.
The lorry driver escaped from his cab and was treated at Chesterfield Royal Infirmary for minor injuries, and later released.
The night passed peacefully at Bradford Royal Infirmary, although staff were braced for a traditionally busy one.
He died suddenly in Bradford Royal Infirmary from ulcers in his gullet, which links the throat to the stomach.
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The sick, infirm and elderly must certainly hope so. Times, Sunday Times
The alternative was to ask workers to contribute to an insurance scheme throughout their working life which supported them when they succumbed to invalidity or the infirmities of age.
Age and infirmity seem to be overlooked in what she calls the harmony between us, -- not perfect agreement of opinion (which I should regret, with almost fifty years of difference), but the spirit-union: can you say what it is? Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time
His attitude was doubtless due to his physical infirmity, which prevented him from being either an observer or an experimenter.
From the forward cabin many persons never escaped. From the after cabin, so far as we know from the evidence, all did escape except an infirm old man.
Surely one of our infirmities is our weakness of faith. Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers
The panic-stricken parents of the three-year-old from Chippenham took her to Bristol Royal Infirmary on Friday night, after she developed a high temperature and sickness.
The study was approved by the Western Infirmary Ethical Committee and all patients gave written, informed consent.
Meanwhile, here's the story of a special smart couch for the sick or infirm that is designed to recognize who is sitting in it, and help them to perform various tasks.
I intend to give a narrative verdict and my finding is that Mr Bamford died as a result of an attack by a mentally infirm individual.
`Did the post-mortem on Leonard Pearson reveal any infirmity or disability? THE BOOK LADY
He who counts himself perfect, must deceive himself by calling sin infirmity (1Jo 1: 8); at the same time, each must aim at perfection, to be a Christian at all Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
One former nurse at the infirmary said he had a charming manner but made it clear to staff that he was the ‘king pin’.
In 1830, it was granted royal patronage by Queen Victoria and became the Manchester Royal Infirmary.
There've been many articles out here about healthcare lately, and I've posted this link to a detailed proposal of a ver good single payer plan many times. we already deny care to the old, poor and infirm. even many insured people are being denied necessary health care services. no denying we will have to pay higher taxes, but we also won't be paying for pharmaceutical sales staff and advertising; we won't be paying for thousands of billing and coding clerks; we won't be paying for insurance claim "adjusters" ... oh, and we also won't be paying for so much urgent and emergency care, because conditions will be caught sooner and more effectively. the end result of universal health care would be a stronger, healthier work force capable of recouping the costs of health care with increased productivity. don't you realize that thousands of people in the usa DIE every year because they have been denied medical services because they couldn't pay. Propeller Most Popular Stories
There is no retirement age and many members are old if not infirm. Times, Sunday Times

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