sickness

a "[d]iseased condition; illness; [or] ill health," Webster's New International Dictionary 2329-2330 (2d ed. 1950), and I think that its companion must similarly be read to connote injuries to physical (or mental) health.

The state of being sick or suffe'ring from disease; a diseased condition of the system; illness; ill health; a disease; a malady; a particular kind of disorder; a diseased, distracted, or enfeebled state. Inability to work from mere old age is not. 51 J. P. 227; pregnancy is not; 26 L. J. C. M. 169; but a woman may be "ill" from pregnancy. Color blindness and incurable blindness have been held to be sickness. 7 E. & B. 794; 90 Neb. 114; Ann. Cas. 1913 A 765; 3 El. & Bl. 587; 28 Eng. L. & Eq. 176. SICUT (Lat.) As.

By sickness is understood any affection of the body which deprives it temporarily of the power to fulfil its usual functions. It has been held to include insanity. L. R. 8 Q. B. 295. Sickness Is either such as affects the body generally, or only some parts of It. Of the former class a fever Is an example; of the latter, blindness. When, a process has been issued against an individual for his arrest, the sheriff or other officer is authorized, after he has arrested him, if he be so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or his health, to let him remain where he found him, and to return the facts at large, or simply lan g uidus.

In a regulation of a friendly society, that any member shall receive a weekly allowance during " any sickness or accident " that may befall him, includes insanity. Burton v. Eyden, L. R. 8 Q. B. 295.