Even Greener Pastures

I'm putting together some vocabulary for my student who works in a pharmacy. I just stumbled upon "to be taken ill" and hesitated for a second. I know people use it in formal settings, I've heard them use it and I know that it means "to suddenly become ill/unwell". I'm just wondering if the pharmacy is the kind of place where someone would use it. "My wife was taken ill, could I have...?" It would be very helpful if people from both the US and UK (SuKi?) could tell me, because she gets customers from all parts of the world.

Thank you!

Nikola, I agree with Neal, it sounds like it’s out of the 1920s, or better yet, a newspaper from 1887 in Missouri. “Has your wife or husband taken ill with dropsy?  Go to Geo. Long Druggist on Main Street and use Mr. Long’s special spider extract. Guaranteed cure!”

Or better yet. A newspaper from say Ohio in 1903 “Taken ill with a cough? Try this non-addictive miracle drug from Germany, available at Geo. Johnson & Sons Druggist, Jackson Street”:


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