Ablepsia | Blindness |
African Consumption | Tuberculosis |
Ansasrca | Generalized Dropsy |
Ague | recurring fever & chills of Malaria |
Angina Pectoris | Paroxysms with severe pain in lower chest, feeling of suffocation |
Apoplexy | Stroke |
Bethlehemite | Mentally ill person |
Bilious fever | Fever, liver disorder the cause |
Black Death | typhus |
Black Lung | From breathing coal dust |
Black Pox | Smallpox |
Bloody Flux | Dysentery |
Brain Fever | Sun stroke |
Bright's Disease | Kidney Inflammation |
Bronze John | Yellow Fever |
Camp Fever | Typhus |
Canine Madness | Hydrophobia (Rabies) |
Catarrh | (1) Inflammation of Mucous Membrane or (2) Cerebral Hemorrhage (Apoplexy) |
Cerebritis | Inflammation of the Brain |
Childbed Fever | Infection following Childbirth |
Chin Cough | Whooping cough |
Chorea | St. Vitus Dance |
Commotion | Concussion |
Congestive Chill | Accumulation of the blood in the blood vessels |
Congestive Fever | Malaria |
Consuption | Pulmonary Tuberculosis |
Corruption | Infection |
Coryza | Cold |
Cramp Colic | Appendicitis |
Debilitas | Weakness of the Body |
Devonshire Colic | Erposure to lead |
Dropsy | Edema caused by kidney or heart disease |
Dysentery | Inflammation of intestinal mucous membrane |
Dyspepsia | Acid Indigestion |
Enteric Fever | Typhoid Fever |
Enteritis | Intestinal inflammation |
Extravasated blood | Ruptured blood vessel |
Falling Sickness | Epilepsy |
Fits | Convulsions |
Flus of Humour | Circulation |
French Disease | Syphilis |
French Pox | Venereal Disease |
Galloping Consumption | Pulmonary Tuberculosis |
Green Sickness | Anemia |
Grippe | Influenza |
Hallucination | Delirium |
Hip Gout | Osteomyelitis |
Ictus Solis | Sunstroke |
Jail Fever | Typhus |
King's Evil | Scrofula; Swelling of the neck glands |
La Grippe | Flu |
Lues Venera | Venereal Disease |
Lumbago | Pain in lower back, hip, or thigh: Sciatica |
Lung fever | Pneumonia |
Lung Sickness | Tuberculosis |
Mania | Insanity |
Mirasmus | Emaciation |
Milk Leg | inflammation of leg |
Morbus | Disease |
Mormal | Gangrene |
Mortification | Infection |
Nostalgia | Homesickness |
Painter's Colic | Exposure to lead |
Phthisis | Pulmonary Consumption |
Pleurisy | Inflammation of Lung |
Pox | Syphilis |
Puerperal Fever | Infection following childbirth |
Putrid Fever | Diphtheria |
Quinsey | Tonsillitis |
Remitting Fever | Malaria |
Sanguinous Crust | Scab |
Scorbutus | Lack of Vitamin C |
Screws | Rheumatism |
Scrofula | see King's Evil |
Senile Gangrene | Hardening of the Arteries |
Ship's Fever | Typhus |
Sore Throat Distemper | Quinsey |
St. Anthony's Fire | Skin Infection |
St. Vitus' Dance | Nervous Twitches |
Sloes | Milk Sickness |
Ulcus | Ulcer |
Venesection | Bleeding |
Whitlow | Boil |
Winter Fever | Pneumonia |
Yellow Jacket | Yellow Fever |
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