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Ablepsy – Blindness
Ague – Malarial Fever
Aphtha – The infant disease “thrush”
Apoplexy – Paralysis due to stroke
Atrophy – Wasting away or diminishing in size
Bilious Fever – Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or fever and bile emesis
Biliousness – Jaundice associated with liver disease
Black plague or death – Bubonic plague
Black pox – Black small pox
Bladder in throat – Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates)
Brain fever – Meningitis
Breakbone – Dengue fever
Bright’s disease – Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
Bule – Boil, tumor or swelling
Camp fever – Typhus; aka: Camp diarrhea
Canine madness – Rabies, hydrophobia
Canker – Ulceration of mouth or lips
Catalepsy – Seizures / trances
Catarrhah – Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy
Chilblain – Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold
Child bed fever – Infection following birth of a child
Chin cough – Whooping cough
Cholera – Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing
Chorea – Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing
Cold plague – Ague which is characterized by chills
Colic – An abdominal pain and cramping
Consumption – Tuberculosis
Cramp colic – Appendicitis
Croup – Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat
Decrepitude – Feebleness due to old age
Dentition – Cutting of teeth
Diary fever – A fever that lasts one day
Diphtheria – Contagious disease of the throat
Dropsy – Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease
Dropsy of the Brain – Encephalitis
Dyspepsia – Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms
Encephalitis – Swelling of brain; aka: sleeping sickness
Enteric fever – Typhoid fever
Enterocolitis – Inflammation of the intestines
Falling sickness – Epilepsy
Fits – Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity
Glandular fever – Mononucleosis
Green fever – sickness – Anemia
Grippe/grip – Influenza like symptoms
Grocer’s itch – Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour
Infantile paralysis – Polio
Jail fever – Typhus
Jaundice – Condition caused by blockage of intestines
King’s evil – Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands
Lockjaw – Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw.
Long sickness – Tuberculosis
Lumbago – Back pain
Lung fever – Pneumonia
Lung sickness – Tuberculosis
Mania – Insanity
Meningitis – Inflamations of brain or spinal cord
Miasma – Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air
Milk fever – Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like brucellosis
Milk sickness – Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds
Nervous prostration – Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities
Palsy – Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles
Paroxysm – Convulsion
Phthisis – Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis
Pleurisy – Any pain in the chest area with each breath
Puerperal fever – Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant
Putrid fever – Diphtheria
Quinsy – Tonsillitis
Remitting fever – Malaria
Rheumatism – Any disorder associated with pain in joints
Rose cold – Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
Rubella – German measles
Scarlatina – Scarlet fever
Scarlet fever – A disease characterized by a red rash
Sciatica – Rheumatism in the hips
Scurvy – Lack of vitamin C
Ship fever – Typhus
Small pox – Contagious disease with fever and blisters
Summer complaint – Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk
Swamp sickness – Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
Tetanus – Characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness
Thrush – Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat
Tick fever – Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Trench mouth – Painful ulcers found along gum line
Variola – Smallpox
Winter fever - Pneumonia
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