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Ague - Malarial Fever
American plague - Yellow fever
Anasarca - Generalized massive edema
Aphonia - Laryngitis
Aphtha - The infant disease "thrush"
Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke
Asphycsia/Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen
Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size.
Bad Blood - Syphilis
Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated
temperature and bile emesis.
Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease
Black plague - Bubonic plague
Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature
Bladder in throat - Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates)
Blood poisoning - Bacterial infection; szepticemia
Bloody flux - Bloody stools
Bloody sweat - Sweating sickness
Bone shave - Sciatica
Brain fever - Meningitis
Breakbone - Dengue fever
Bright's disease - Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
Bronze John - Yellow fever
Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling
Cachexy - malnutrition
Cacogastric - Upset stomach
Cacospysy - Irregular pulse
Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy
Camp fever - Typhus; aka Camp diarrhea
Canine madness - Rabies, hydrophobia
Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
Catalepsy - Seizures/trances
Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy
Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning.
Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold.
Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child
Chin cough - Whooping cough.
Chlorosis - Iron deficiency anemia
Cholera - Acute sever contagious diarrhea with
intestinal lining sloughing
Cholera morbus - Characterized by nausea, vomiting,
abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc.
Could be appendicitis
Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder.
Cholelithiasis - Gall stones.
Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions, and dancing.
Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills.
Colic - An abdominal cramping.
Congestive chills - Malaria
Consumption - Tuberculosis.
Congestion - Any collection of fluin in an organ, like the lungs.
Congestive Chills - Malaria with diarrhea.
Congestive fever - Malaria
Corruption - Infection
Coryza - A cold.
Costiveness - Constipation.
Cramp colic - appendicitis
Crop sickness - Overextended stomach
Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat.
Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood.
Cynanche - Diseases of throat
Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder.
Day fever - Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness.
Debility - Lack of movement or staying in bed.
Decrepitude - feebleness due to old age.
Delirium tremens - hallucination due to alcoholism
Dengue - Infectious fever endemic to East Africa.
Dentition - Cutting of teeth.
Deplumation - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss.
Diary fever - A fever that lasts one day.
Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat.
Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise,
discharge from nose and throat, anorexia
Dock fever - Yellow fever.
Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease.
Dropsy of the Brain - Encephalitis.
Dry Bellyache - lead poisoning.
Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition.
Dysentery - Inflammation of colon with frequent
passage of mucous and blodd.
Dysorexy - Reduced appetite
Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms.
Dysury - Difficulty in urination.
Eclampsy - Symptoms of epilepsy or convultions during labor.
Ectasy - A form of catalepsy
Edema - Nephrosis; swelling of tissues.
Edema of lungs - Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy.
Eel thing - Erysipelas
Elephantiasis - A form of leprosy.
Encephalitis - Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness.
Enteric fever - Typhoid fever.
Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines.
Enteritis - Inflations of the bowels.
Epitaxis - Nose bleed.
Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci
with vesicular bulbous lesions.
Extravasted blood - Rupture of a blood vessel.
Falling sickness - Epilepsy.
Fatty liver - Cirrhosis of liver
Fits - Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity.
Flux - An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like
hemorrhage or diarrhea.
Flux of humour - Circulation.
French pox - Syphilis
Gathering - A collection of pus.
Glandular fever - Mononucleosis
Great pox - Syphilis
Green fever/sickness - Anemia
Grippe/grip - Influenza like symptoms.
Grocer's itch - Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour.
Heart sickness - Condition caused by loss of salt from body.
Heat stroke - Body temperature elevates because of
surrounding environment temperature and body does
not perspire to reduce temperature.
Coma and death result if not reversed.
Hectical complain - Recurrent fever.
Henatemesis - Vomiting blood.
Hematuria - Bloody uring.e
Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of body
Hip gout - Osteomylitis
Horros - Delirium tremens
Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain.
Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy.
Hydrophobia - Rabies.
Dydrothorax - Dropsy in chest
Pypertrophic - Enlargement of organ, like the heart.
Impetigo - contagious skin disease characterized by pustules.
Inanition - Physical condition resulting from lack of food.
Infantile paralysis - Polio
Intestinal colic - Abdominal pain due to bad diet.
Jail fever - Typhus
Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines.
King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands.
Kruchhusten - Whooping cough.
Lagrippe - Influenza
Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the
muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days.
Long sickness - Tuberculosis
Lues disease - Syphilis.
Lues venera - Venereal disease.
Lumbago - Back pain.
Lung fever - Pneumonia
Lung sickness - Tuberculosis
Lying in - Time of delivery of infant.
Malignant sore throat - Siphtheria
Mania - Insanity.
Marasmums - Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition.
Membranous Croup - Diptheria
Meningitis - Inflations of brain or spinal cord.
Metritis - Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge.
Miasma - Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air.
Milk fever - Disease from drinking contaminated milk.
Milk leg - Post partum thrombophlebitis
Milk sickness - Disease from milk of cattle
which had eaten poisonous weeds.
Mormal - Gangrene.
Morphew - Scurvy blisters on the body.
Mortification - Gangrene of necrotic tissue.
Myelitis - Inflammation of the spine
Myocarditis - Inflammation of heart muscles.
Necrosis - Mortification of bones or tissue.
Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration.
Nepritis - Inflammation of kidneys.
Nervous prostration - Extreme exhaustion from
inability to control physical and mental activities.
Neuralgia - Described as discomfort, such as
"headache" was neuralgia in head.
Nostalgia - Homesickness
Palsy - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement
of controlled muscles. It was listed as "Cause of Death"
Paroxysm - Convulsion
Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters
Pericarditis - Inflammation of heart
Peripneumonia - Inflammation of lungs
Peritonotis - Inflammation of abdominal area
Petechial Fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting
Phthiriasis - Lice infestation
Phthisis - Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis
Plague - An acute febrile highly infectious
disease with a high fatality rate
Plaurisy - Any pain the chest area with each breath
Podagra - Gout
PolioPotter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis
Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of spine
Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to child birth
Puerperal fever - Elevated temperature after
giving birth to an infant
Puking fever - Milk sickness
Putrid fever - Diptheria
Quinsy - Tonsilitis
Remitting fever - Malaria
Rheumatism - Any disorder associated with pain in joints.
Rickets - Disease of skeletal system
Rose cold - Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
Rotanny fever - (Child's disease) ??
Rubeola - German measles
Sanguineous crust - Scab
Scarlatina - Scarlet fever
Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by red rash
Scarlet rash - Roseola
Sciatica - Rheumatism in the hips
Scirrhus - Cancerous tumors
Scotomy - Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight
Scrivener's palsy - Writer's cramp
Screws - Rheumatism
Scrofula - Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands.
Progresses slowly with abscesses and pistulas
Scrumpox - Skin disease, impetigo
Scurvy - Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness,
spongy gums and hemorrhages under skin.
Septicemia - Blood poisoning
Shakes - Delirious tremens
Shaking - Chills, ague
Shingles - Viral disease with skin blisters
Ship fever - Typhus
Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure
Sloes - Milk sickness
Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters
Softening of brain - Result of stroke or hemorrhage
in the brain, with an end result of the tissue
softening in that area
Sore throat distemper - Diphtheria or quinsy
Spanish influenza - Epidemic influenza
Spasms - Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group
of muscles like a convulsion
Spina bifida - Deformity of spine
Spotted fever - Either typhys or miningitis
Sprue- Tropical disease characterized by intestinal
disorders and sore throat
St Anthony's fire - Also erysipelas, but named so
because of affected skin areas are bright red in appearance
St Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurrence of rapid
complex jerking movements perfomed involuntary
Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth
Stranger's fever - Yellow fever
Strangery - Rupture
Sudor anglicus - Sweating sickness
Summer complaint - Diarrhea, usually in infants
caused by spoiled milk
Sunstroke - Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature
due to environment heat. Lack of sodium in
the body is a predisposing cause.
Swamp sickness - Infectious and fatal disease common to
UK in 15th century
Tetanus - Infectious fever characterized by high fever,
headache and dizziness
Thrush - Childhood disease characterized by spots on
mouth, lips and throat
Tick fever - Rocky mountain spotted fever
Toxemia - Eclampsia
Trench mouth - Painful ulcers found along gum line.
Cause by poor nutrition and poor hygiene
Tussis convulsiva - Whooping cough
Typhus - Infectious fever characterized by high fever,
headach, and dizziness
Variola - Small pox
Venesection - Bleeding
Viper's dance - St Vitus dance
Water on brain - Enlarged head
White swelling - Tuberculosis of the bone
Winter fever - Pneumonia
Womb fever - Infection of the uterus
Worm fit - Convulsions associated with teething, worms,
elevated temperature or diarrhea
Yellowjacket - Yellow fever
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