Ailments mentioned in Shane Neilson's latest poetry collection, Complete Physical, published by The Porcupine's Quill in 2010. Neilson is a writer and family physician. Read his story Import-Export, from Geist 77.

Amputated leg

Asthenia

Aureus known as tumour

Baloony heart

Black holes

Cooked liver marinated in high spirits

Cough

Dementia

Dislocated shoulder

Gout

Heart failure

Lost thumb

Love

Old beaten-down lungs

Phlegm (in reference to temperament)

Purple polka dots

Radio for brain

Shortness of breath

Sore ear

Sore throat

Soul leaking out heat

Soul leaking out light

Spot on lung

Spot on brain

Vanity

World-weariness