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See: disability, disease, disorder, pain, prostration SICKNESS. By sickness is understood any affection of the body which deprives
it temporarily of the power to fulfill its usual functions.
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| And he has managed to avoid the altitude sickness that can go
along with it. It is used
to treat such ailments as altitude sickness (La Paz is at an altitude of
4,000m) and colds, and is also brewed as tea and chewed during the day. Whenever I would have to sit down to breathe through an oxygen
mask (we were working at nearly fifteen thousand feet), she would bring
me coca tea to combat my altitude sickness. |
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