| 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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