Even trivial ailments, or accidents such as falling from a tree, were often attributed to malevolence.

Figuring out how to tend to Dr. Gordon, who says he complains more vociferously about trivial ailments than serious ones, is more complex.

You needed patience to tolerate the at times stupid, hypochondriacal old island ladies, but Reid offered them his placebos with no thought of the unnecessary work such trivial ailments caused him.

The Collector himself had paid no attention to it, assuming it to be one of the many trivial ailments from which the garrison, deprived of adequate fresh food, was now suffering.