ABLEPSY- blindness
AGUE -
malarial fever
AMERICAN PLAGUE - yellow fever
ANASARCA -general
massive edema
APHONIA - laryngitis
APHTHA - infant disease
"thrush"
APOPLEXY - paralysis from stroke
ASPHYCSIA/ASPHICSIA -
cyanotic (lack of oxygen)
ATROPHY - wasting away
BAD BLOOD -
syphilis
BILIOUS FEVER - typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or high temperature
and bile emesis. Also what we call yellow jaundice today
BILIOUSNESS -
jaundice from liver disease
BLACK PLAGUE OR DEATH - bubonic plague
BLACK FEVER - acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions,
high mortality rate
BLACK POX - black small pox
BLACK VOMIT - vomiting
odd black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever
BLACKWATER FEVER - dark urine
with high temperature
BLADDER IN THROAT - diphtheria (seen on death
certificates
BLOOD POISONING - bacterial infection; septicemia
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 DIABETES - Hereditary Hemochromatosis
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 or camp diarrhea
CANINE MADNESS - rabies, hydrophobia
CANKER -
ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
CATALEPSY - seizures or
trances
CATARRHAL - nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy
CEREBRITIS - inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
CHILBLAIN -
swelling of extremities from exposure to cold
CHILD BED FEVER - infection
following child birth
CHIN COUGH - whopping cough
CHLOROSIS - iron
deficiency anemia
CHOLERA - acute, severe, contagious diarrhea with
intestional 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 characterized by chills
COLIC - an abdominal pain and cramping
CONGESTIVE CHILLS - malaria
CONSUMPTION - tuberculosis
CONGESTION - any collection of fluid in an
organ, like the lungs
CONGESTIVE CHILLS - malaria
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, staying in bed
DECREPITUDE - feebleness from old age
DELIRIUM TREMENS - hallucinations due
to alcoholism
DENGUE - infectious fever endemic to East Africa
DENTITION - cutting of teeth
DEPLUMATION - tumor of the eyelids causing
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 blood
DYSOREXY -
reduced appetite
DYSPEPSIA - indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack
symptoms
DYSURY - difficulty in urination
ENCLAMPSY - symptoms
of epilepsy, convulsions during labor
ECSTASY - a form of catalepsy
characterized by loss of reason
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 or sleeping sickness
ENTERIC FEVER - typhoid fever
ENTEROCOLITIS - inflammation of the bowels
ENTERITIS - inflation of the
bowels
EPITAXIS - nose bleed
ERYSIPELAS - contagious skin disease from
streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions
EUPIHELAS, EUPIHELOS or EUIPHELOS - Skin Tumors
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 bymites 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 COMPLAINT - recurrent fever
HEMATEMESIS - vomiting blood
HEMATURIA - bloody urine
HEMIPLEGY -
paralysis of one side of body
HIP GOUT - osteomylitis
HORRORS -
delirium tremens
HYDROCEPHALUS - enlarged head, water on the brain
HYDROPERICARDIUM - heart dropsy
HYDROPHOBIA - rabies
HYDROTHROAX -
dropsy in chest
HYPERTROPHIC - enlargement of organ, like the heart
IMPETIGO - contagious skin disease with pustules
INANITION - physical
condition resulting from lack of food
INFANTILE PARALYSIS - polio
INTESTINAL COLIC - abdominal pain from improper 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 th emuscvles of the neck and jaw. Untreated it is fatal in 8
days
LONG SICKNESS - tuberculosis
LUES DISEASE - syphilis
LUES
VENEERA - veneral disease
LUMBAGO - back pain
LUNG FEVER -
pneumonia
LUNG SICKNESS - tuberculosis
LYING IN - time of delivery of
infant
MALIGNANT SORE THROAT - diphtheria
MANIA - insanity
MARASMUS - progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition
MEMBRANOUS
CROUP - diphtheria
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, like undulant fever or brucellosis
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
PARAXYSM - convulsion
PEMPHIGUS - skin disease with watery blisters
PERICARDITIS - inflammation
of heart
PERIPNEUMONIA - inflammation of lungs
PERITONOTIS -
inflammation of abdominal area
PETECHIAL FEVER - fever with skin
spotting
PUERPERAL EXHAUSTION - death from child birth
PHTHIRIASIS -
lice infestation
PHTHISIS - chronic wasting away or a name for
tuberculosis
PLAGUE - an acute febrile highly infectious disease with a
high fatality rate
PLEURISY - any pain in the chest area with each
breath
PODAGRA - gout
POLIOMYELITIS - polio potter's asthma
POTT'S DISEASE - tuberculosis of spine
PUERPERAL EXHAUSTION - death from
childbirth
PUERPERAL FEVER - elevated temperature after giving birth to an
infant
PUKING FEVER - milk sickness
PUTRID FEVER - diphtheria
QUINSY - tonsillitis
REMITTING FEVER - malaria
PHEUMATISM
- any disorder associated with pain in joints
RICKETS - disease of skeletal
system
ROSE COLD - hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
ROTANNY
FEVER - children's disease
RUBEOLA - german measles
SANGUINEOUS
CRUST - scab
SCARLATINA - scarlet fever
SCARLET FEVER - a disease with
a 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 developing. Usually occurs in the young
SCRUMPOX - skin disease, impetigo
SCURVY - lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of
weakness, spongy gums, hemmoraging under skin
SEPTICEMIA - blood poisoning
shakes
SHAKING - chills, ague
SHINGLES - viral disease with skin
blisters
SHIP FEVER - typhus
SIRIASIS - inflammation of the brain from
exposure to the sun
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 typhus or meningitis
SPRUE - tropical disease with
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
performed 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 - could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
SWEATING SICKNESS -
infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century
TETANUS -
infectious fever with high fever, headache and idzziness
THROMBOSIS - blood
clot inside blood vessel. Thrush
TICK FEVER - rocky mountain spotted
fever
TOXEMIA OF PREGNANCY - eclampsia
TRENCH MOUTH - painful ulcers
found along gum line caused by poor nutrition and poor hygiene
TUSSIS
CONVULSIVA - whooping cough
TYPHUS - infectious fever with high fever,
headache and dizziness
VARIOLA - smallpox
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, high temperature or diarrhea
YELLOWJACKET - yellow fever |
