Soseki became sickly as he was getting older and had a lot of diseases, including tuberculosis of the lungs, trachoma, nervous breakdown, hemorrhoids, diabetes, and gastric ulcer, of which he died.
漱石は、歳を重ねるごとに病気がちとなり、肺結核、トラホーム、神経衰弱、痔、糖尿病、命取りとなった胃潰瘍まで、多数の病気を抱えていた。