Medical Terms, Talbot County GAGenWeb

Ablepsia	blindness
Ague	intermittent fever or chills
Ambustio	burn
Amputation, primary	usually done in within the first 24 hours of original injury
Amputation, secondary	performed to improve the primary amputation
Anodynes	medication that help with pain
Apoplexy	stroke, or impairment from a brain hemorrhage
Aphtha	Thrush
Army Itch	Scabies
Asenthia	Weakness
Bilious fever	Malaria or thyphoid
Black Water Fever	Fever accompanied by dark colored urine
Bright's disease	Kidney Disease
Camp State or Fever	symptoms which happened when troops were crowded together like fevers and diarrhea.
Catalepsy	seizures or trances
Catarrhus	mucus membrane inflammation
Child Bed Fever	infection after childbirth
Chlorosis	anemia
Cholera	infectious disease, including diarrhea, often leading to death
Colica	abdominal pain
Consumption	tuberculosis, or a general wasting away
Coryza	acute inflammation of nose and tonsils.
Cow Pox	a virus similar to smallpox. Caught from the udders of cows which have blisters, caught by touch, usually localized. Was used as a successful vaccination against smallpox.
Crop Sickness	bloated stomach
Crowd Poisonings	fevers and sickness when troops were crowded together
Debility	lack of strength, a lasting symptom
Dementia	insanity, many different levels
Dengue	fever from a mosquito bite
Dropsy	congestive heart failure
Dysentery	inflammation of intestines, caused by bacteria or parasites
Dyspepsia	stomach discomfort after meals
Dyspenia	trouble breathing
Erysipelas	contagious skin disease, redness and swelling of affected areas
Falling Sickness	epilepsy
Flux	diarrhea
Glanders	an infectious disease that can start with horses, donkeys and mules. Attacks the respiratory system.
Goiter	swelling of lymph gland
Grippe	influenza, flu
Hemophthis	spitting up blood
Impetigo	contagious skin disease
Inflammatory Rheumatism	rheumatic fever
Lockjaw	tetanus
Malaria	transmitted by mosquitoes, chills, fever and sweating can be recurrent
Marasmus	infant wasting away from causes unknown
Miasma	poisonous vapors thought to have infected the air.
Milk Leg	swelling of legs of women who recently gave birth
Milk sickness	sickness from the ingestion of milk, milk products or meat products from animals having the "trembles"
Morphew	scurvy blisters
mortification	death
osteomylitis	inflammation of the bone or surgical fever
Neurasthenia	neurosis caused by worry, and causing indigestion, etc.
Parotitis	Mumps
Peritonitis	frequently the cause of death in abdominal wounds
Pleurisy	lung inflammation
Pneumonia	inflammation of the lungs
Padogra	gout
Pox	syphilis
Prostration	extreme exhaustion
Pyemia	pus in blood, used to be for all types of blood poisoning, usually fatal
Pyrosis	heartburn
Quinsy	abscess of the tonsils
Rheumatism	inflammation of the joints, muscles
Rubella	measles
Scarlatina	scarlet fever
scrofula	tuberculosis of the lymph nodes
Scurvey	Vitamin C deficiency disease. In civil war they tried to prevent this by having soldiers eat desiccated vegetables as a ration.
Sleeping Sickness	encephalitis
sub-Laxatio	non complete dislocation
Suppuration	formation of pus, thought to be a good thing in the 1860's
Trench Mouth	sores or ulcers in the mouth at the gum line
Variola	smallpox
Venesection	bleeding
Vulnus Incisim	incisional wound
Vulnus Punctum	puncture wound
Vulnus Sclopeticum	gunshot wound
winter fever	pneumonia
Yellow Fever	Virus, was thought to have been brought by air instead of mosquitos