|
Disease Name |
Symptoms,
description |
|
Apoplexy |
Paralysis due to stroke |
|
Brain Fever |
Meningitis |
|
Bright's Disease |
Chronic inflammatory
disease of kidneys |
|
Child bed fever |
Infection following birth
of a child |
|
Cholera |
Acute severe contagious
diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing |
|
Cholera morbus |
Characterized by nausea,
vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc.
Could be appendicitis |
|
Congestive chills/ fever |
Malaria |
|
Consumption |
Tuberculosis |
|
Decrepitude |
Feebleness due to old age |
|
Dropsy |
Edema (swelling), often
caused by kidney or heart disease |
|
Dropsy of the Brain |
Encephalitis |
|
Dysentery |
Inflammation of colon with
frequent passage of mucous and blood |
|
Encephalitis |
Swelling of brain; aka
sleeping sickness |
|
Falling sickness |
Epilepsy |
|
Flux |
An excessive flow or
discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea |
|
Grippe/grip |
Influenza like symptoms |
|
Jaundice |
Condition caused by
blockage of intestines |
|
Lagrippe |
Influenza |
|
Lockjaw |
Tetanus or infectious
disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw.
Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days |
|
Lung fever |
Pneumonia |
|
Lung sickness |
Tuberculosis |
|
Meningitis |
Inflation of brain or
spinal cord |
|
Nephrosis |
Kidney degeneration |
|
Nepritis |
Inflammation of kidneys |
|
Quinsy |
Abscess behind tonsils |
|
Small pox |
Contagious disease with
fever and blisters |
|
Summer complaint |
Diarrhea, usually in
infants caused by spoiled milk |
|
Tuberculosis |
Bacterial infection that
primarily attacks the lungs, but which may also affect
the kidneys, bones, lymph nodes, and brain. Symptoms of
TB include coughing, chest pain, shortness of breath,
loss of appetite, weight loss, fever, chills, and
fatigue. |
|
Tetanus |
Infectious fever
characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness |
|
Thrush |
Childhood disease
characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat |
|
Trench mouth |
apathos ulcers or a virus
disease
|
|
Typhus |
Infectious fever
characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness |
|
Winter fever |
Pneumonia |
