Which preposition to use with distempers

of Occurrences 27%

No, no, I am for marrying her out of hand to any reasonable Husband, except a Merchant; for Maids will long, and that's Probatum est against the prevailing distemper of Longing.

in Occurrences 10%

Mercury causes hoarseness and distempers in the senses, impediments in the speech, falling sickness, coughs, jaundice, vomiting, catarrhs.

among Occurrences 3%

Pringle, more than a hundred years ago, said that "itch was the most general distemper among soldiers."

as Occurrences 3%

He then bethought himself of alleging his distemper as an excuse; and asserted that those who are under its influence are apt to find their faculties fail them when they speak standing, a trembling and giddiness coming upon them, which bereave them of their senses.

by Occurrences 2%

They also thought to drive away his distemper by harsh and surly carriage to him; sometimes they would deride, sometimes they would chide, and sometimes they would quite neglect him.

under Occurrences 2%

The sole consolation, with which this world could now supply Beattie, was, that if his sons had lived, he might have seen them a prey to that miserable distemper under which their mother, whose state had rendered a separation from her family unavoidable, was still labouring.

to Occurrences 1%

It may bring his distemper to a crisis, and that may cure him.

from Occurrences 1%

XVIII.Bibulus, being prevented from landing for several days, and being seized with a violent distemper from the cold and fatigue, as he could neither be cured on board, nor was willing to desert the charge which he had taken upon him, was unable to bear up against the violence of the disease.

after Occurrences 1%

in a young man of twenty-eight years of age, so distempered after a quartan, which had molested him five years together; Hildesheim spicel.

at Occurrences 1%

The Age at which Dogs take DistemperThey may take distemper at any age; the most common time of life is from the fifth till the eleventh or twelfth month.

about Occurrences 1%

I am come hither in hopes of benefit from the air, but I carry my distemper about me in an anguish of mind that visibly decays my body every day.

into Occurrences 1%

Not long after this I found in my self all the Symptoms of the Gout, except Pain, but was cured of it by a Treatise upon the Gravel, written by a very Ingenious Author, who (as it is usual for Physicians to convert one Distemper into another) eased me of the Gout by giving me the Stone.

on Occurrences 1%

As this good Man was troubled with a Complication of Distempers, when he had the Gout upon him, he used to thank God that it was not the Stone; and when he had the Stone, that he had not both these Distempers on him at the same time.

Which preposition to use with  distempers