ABLEPSY- blindness
ABSCESS- boil
ADDISON'S DISEASE (AKA BRONZED SKIN DISEASE)- a disease characterized by severe weakness,
low blood pressure and a bronzed coloration of the skin
AGUE- a fever, usually malarial, marked by regularly recurring chills
AMERICAN PLAQUE- yellow fever
ANASARCA- dropsy
ANTHRAX- carbuncle or large painful boil
APHONIA- laryngitis
APOPLEXY- paralysis due to stroke
ARACHNITIS- inflammation of membranes in the brain
ASCETIS- probably liver disease from cirrhosis or cancer; perhaps kidney or heart disease.
ATROPHY- wasting away or diminishing in size
BAD BLOOD- syphillis
BARBERS ITCH- ringworm of the beard
BILIOUS COLIC- typhoid; hepatitus; typhus
BILLARY CALCULIS- stones in the gallbladder, probably with infection or rupture of the gallbladder
BILLOUS FEVER- a fever caused by a disorder of the liver
BLACK PLAQUE- bubonic plaque
BLACK FEVER- acute infection with high temperature and dark skin lesions and high mortality.
BLADDER IN THROAT- diptheria
BONE SHAVE- sciatica
BRAIN FEVER- probably a meningitis, perhaps polio or an encephalitis
BREAKBONE- dengue fever
BRIGHT'S DISEASE- kidney inflammation
BRONZE JOHN- yellow fever
BRONZED SKIN DISEASE- see Addison's Disease
CACHEXY- malnutrition
CADUCEUS- falling sickness or epilepsy
CAMP FEVER- typhus
CANCER- malignant growth, carcinoma
CANINE MADNESS- rabies, hydrophia
CANKER- probably a mouth with gangrene.Perhaps a misspelling of cancer.
CATALEPSY- seizures; trances
CEREBRATIS- inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
CEREBROSPINALA FEVER- see Meningitis
CHILBLAINS- painful sore or swelling of the foot or hand caused by exposure to the cold
CHILD BED FEVER- infection following the birth of a child
CHIN COUGH- whooping cough
CHILELITHIASIS- gall stones
CHOLERA- any of several intestinal diseases, but mainly an acute, severe, infectious disease
characterized by profuse diarrhea, intestinal pain and dehydration.
CHOREA- Saint Vitus Dance
CLAP- gonorrhea
COMMOTION- concussion
CONSUMPTION- see Tuberculosis. Also known as marasmus; phthisis
CORRUPTION- infection
COSTIVENESS- constipaption
CRAMP COLIC- appendicitis
CRUSTED TETTER- impetigo
CYSTITIS- inflammation of the bladder
DECREPITUDE- feebleness due to old age
DEMENTIA PARALYCTIA- term for the advanced stage of syphillis
DENGUE- infectious fever from East Africa
DIPHERIA- an acute infectious disease caused by a bacterium and characterized by weakness,
high fever and the formation in the air passenges of a tough, membrane-like obstruction to breathing.
DOCK FEVER- yellow fever
DROPSY- an accumulation of fluid in the body, probably heart or kidney disease.
DYSENTERY- any of various intestional inflammations characterized by abdominal pain and intense
diaherria with bloody, mucous feces.
DYSPEPSIA- any disorder of the stomach of intestine, usually over a long time. May have been
a ruptured ulcer, colitis, cancer, etc.
ELEPHALITIS- form of leprosy
ENCEPHALITIS- swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness
ENTERIC FEVER- typhoid fever
EPILEPSY- a disorder of the nervous system
EPITAXIS- nose bleed
ERISIPELAST/ ERYSIPELAS (aka Rose, Saint Anthony's Fire)- an acute infectious disease of the
skin or mucous membranes caused by a streptococous and characterized by local inflammation and fever.
FALLING SICKNESS- epilepsy
FLU- see influenza
FLUX, INTERRIES, SUMMER COMPLIANT- these all represent diaherra, perhaps dupentery, typhoid,
cholera or food posioning. Summer compliant was usually used for children; espically their second summer. Interries is probably
enteritis.
FRENCH POX- syphillis
FURUNCLE- boil
GANGRENE- death and decay of tissue in a part of the body
GASTRO ENTERITIS- an intestinal upset. Perhaps typhoid, dipentry, or cholera. Possibly a ruptured
stomach ulcer, colitis, cancer.
GLANDERS- a contagious disease of horses, mules, etc. Characterized by fever, swelling of
glands beneath the lower jaw, inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, etc. It can be transmitted to man and certain other
animals.
GLANDULAR FEVER- mononuclesois
GLEET- urinary tract disease
GRAVEL- kidney or bladder stones
GREAT POX- syphilis
GREEN SICKNESS- anemia
GRIPPE- influenza
GROCER'S ITCH- skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour
HEMIPLEGY- paralysis of one side of the body
HIP GOUT- osteomulitis
HIVES- skin eruption with sever itching
HOSPITAL FEVER- typhus
HUNT FEVER- strep throat
HYDROPHOBIA- rabies
ICETRUS- jaundice
IMPETIGO- contagious skin disease characterized by pustules
INFANTILE PARALYSIS- polio
INFLUENZA- an acute, contagious, infectious disease caused by any of a specific group of viruses
and characterized by inflammation of the respiratory tract, fever, and muscular pain.
INTERMITTENT FEVER- a fever characterized by periodic intervals when the body temperature
returns to normal
JAIL FEVER- typhus
JAUNDICE- yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes and mucous membranes
KINGS EVIL- scrofula
KRUCHHUSTEN- whooping cough
LAGRIPPE- influenza
LOCKJAW- tetanus
LUES DISEASE- syphillis
LUES VENERA- veneral diease
LUMBAGO- back pain
LUNG FEVER- pneumonia
LUNG SICKNESS- tuberculosis
MALARIA- this was once thought to be from exposure to bad air in swamps. It is an infecious
disease, generally intermittent and recurrent, caused by any various protozoans that are parasatic in the red blood corpuscles
and are transmitted to man by the bite of an infected mosquito. It is characterized by severe chills and fever.
MANIA- insanity
MARASMA, MARRASMUS, INANETION- an extreme malnutrition or severe wasting, espically of children.
Often due to diaherra, vomiting and chronic disease or starvation.
MARASMUS- consumption; tuberculosis
MEASLES- a highly infectious, communicable virus disease, characterized by small red spots
on the skin, high fever, nasal discharge, etc. and occurring most frequently in childhood.
MEMBRANOUS CROUP- diptheria
MENINGITIS- an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal column and is the result
of infection from bacteria or viruses
METRITIS- a severe infection of the woman's utereus with purulent vaginal discharge
MIASMA- poisonous vapors thought to infect the air
MILK FEVER- desease from drinking contaminated milk
MILK SICKNESS- a rare disease, caused by consuming dairy products or flesh from cattle that
have eaten any of various poisonous weeds. For some reason, this seems to have been linked to nursing mothers that died.
MORMAL- gangrene
MORPHEW- scurvy
MYELITIS- inflammation of the spine
NECROSIS- motification of bones or tissue
NEPHROSIS- kidney degeneration
NEPRITIS- inflammation of the kidneys
NEYRALGIA- a disease of the nerves. May have been a meningitis, brain tumor, polio, epilepsy
NOSTALGIA- homesickness
OPTHALMIA- a severe inflammation of the eyeball or conjuction
PALSY- uncontrolled movement of muscles
PARISTHMITIS- quinsey
PAROXYSM- convulsions
PELLAGRA- disease caused by eating spoiled corn
PERTUSIS- whooping cough
PHTHISIS- tuberculosis; marasmus
PHTHISIS PULMONIASIS- lung consumption
PLEURISY- inflammation of the lining of the chest cavity
PNEUMONIA- inflammation of the lungs
PODAGRA- gout
POLIOMYELITIS- polio
POTTS DISEASE- tuberculosis of the spinal vertebrae
POX- syphillius
PUERPURAL CONVULSIONS- toxemia of pregnancy, with hypertension, edema, etc. Convulsions are
frequent.
PUERPURAL EXHAUSTION- death due to childbirth
PUERPURAL FEVER- infection associated with child birth; sepsis sometimes occurring during
childbirth
PUKING FEVER- milk sickness
PUTRID FEVER- typhus
PYEMIA- blood poisoning
PYREXIA- dysentery
QUINSING- almost certainly QUINSEY, an abscess of the throat; tonsillition
REMITTING FEVER- malaria
RHEUMATISM- pain in joints
RICKETS- disease of skeletal system
ROSE COLD- hay fever; allergies
ROSEOLA- false measels
RUBEOLA- german measles
SCALLUE, SCROFFULA- a tuberculosis, espically of the glands
SCARLET FEVER- a highly contagious disease, espically of children. Characterized by
sore throat, fever and scarlet rash
SCIATICA- rheumatism in the hips
SCIRRHUS- cancerous tumors
SCRIVENER'S PALSY- writer's cramp
SCREWS- rheumatism
SCROFULA- tuberculosis of the lymphastic glands espically in the heck
SCRUMPOX- impetigo
SCURVY- lack of vitamin c
SEPTICEMIA- blood poisoning
SHAKES- delirium tremors
SHINGLES- viral disease with skin blisters
SHIP FEVER- typhus
SLOES- milk sickness
ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE- also known as Erisipelas/erysipelas- an accute infectious disease of the
skin or mucous membranes caused by a streptococous and characterized by local inflammations and fever.
SMALLPOX- a highly contagious viral disease characterized by prolonged fever, vomiting and
eruptions on the skin that often left pitted scars (or pockmarks) when healed.
SPANISH INFLUENZA- epidemic influenza
SPASMS- sudden involuntary contraction of muscles; convulsion
SPINA BIFIDA- deformaty of the spine
ST. VITAS DANCE- ceaseless occurrence of involuntary rapid jerking movements.
SPOTTED FEVER- typhus or meningitis
STRANGERS FEVER- yellow fever
STRANGERY- rupture
SWAMP FEVER- malaria
TERTIAN FEVER- occurring every other day, usually every third day, applied to fever or a disease
causing it, espically certain forms of malaria
TETANUS- lockjaw
THROMBOSIS- blood clot inside blood vessel
TICK FEVER- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
TRENCH MOUTH- painful ulcers on gums
TUBERCULOSIS- an infectious disease characterized by the formation of tuberclues in various
tissues of the body, espically the lungs. Also called consumption.
TUSSIS CONVULSIVE- whooping cough
TYPHOID- a highly infectous disease acquired by ingesting food or water contaminated by excreta.
It was formerly considered a form of typhus and is charaterized by fever, intestinal disorders, etc.
TYPHUS- acute infection disease transmitted by lice and fleas
VARIOLA- smallpox
WINTER FEVER- probably influenze, pneumonia
WOMB FEVER- infection of the uterus
YELLOW FEVER- a highly infectious disease caused by a virus transmitted by the bite of the
yellow fever mosquito. It is characterized by fever, jaundice, vomiting, etc.
YELLOW JACKET- yellow fever
