- Ablepsy - Blindness
- American Plague - Yellow fever
- Aphonia - Laryngitis
- Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke
- Bad Blood - Syphilis
- Black Plague/Black Death - Bubonic plague
- Black Fever - Acute infection with high temperature
and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate
- Black Pox - Black Small pox
- Black Vomit - Vomiting old black blood due
to ulcers or yellow fever.
- Blackwater Fever - Dark urine associated with
high temperature
- Bladder in Throat - Diphtheria
- Bone Shave - Sciatica
- Brain Fever - Meningitis
- Bright's Disease - Chronic inflammatory disease
of kidneys
- Bronze John - Yellow fever
- Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling
- Camp fever - Typhus, Camp diarrhea
- Catalepsy - Seizures/Trances
- Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum or lead
poisoning
- 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 - Disease characterized by convulsions,
contortions and dancing
- Colic - An abdominal pain and cramping
- Congestive Chills - Malaria
- Congestive Fever - Malaria Consumption
- Consumption - Tuberculosis
- Corruption - Infection
- Cramp Colic - Appendicitis
- Crop Sickness - Overextended stomach
- Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat
- Day Fever - Fever lasting one day, sweating
sickness
- Debility - Lack of movement or staying in
bed
- Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age
- 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
- Dysentery - Inflammation of colon with frequent
passage of mucous and blood
- 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
- Elephantiasis - A form of leprosy
- Encephalitis - Swelling of brain, aka sleeping
sickness
- Enteric Fever - Typhoid fever
- Falling Sickness - Epilepsy
- Fits - Sudden attack or seizure of muscle
activity
- Flux - An excessive flow or discharge of fluid
like hemorrhage or diarrhea
- French Pox - Syphilis
- Gathering - A collection of pus
- Great pox - Syphilis
- Green Fever - Anemia
- Grocer's Itch - Skin disease caused by mites
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
- Horrors - Delirium tremens
- Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the
brain
- Hydrophobia - - Rabies
- Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest
- Hypertrophic - Enlargement of organ, like
the heart
- Impetigo - Contagious skin disease characterized
by pustules
- Infantile Paralysis - Polio
- 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
the muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days
- Long Sickness - Tuberculosis
- Lues Disease - Syphilis
- Lumbago - Back pain
- Lung Fever - Pneumonia
- Lung Sickness - Tuberculosis
- Malignant Sore Throat/Membranous Croup - Diphtheria
- Mania - Insanity
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- Meningitis - Inflation of brain or spinal
cord
- 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
- Mortification - Gangrene of necrotic tissue
- Necrosis - Mortification of bones or tissue
- Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration
- Nepritis - Inflammation of kidneys
- Palsy - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement
of controlled muscles
- Paroxysm - Convulsion
- Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters
- Pericarditis - Inflammation of heart
- Peritonotis - Inflammation of abdominal area
- Phthiriasis - Lice infestation
- Plague - An acute febrile highly infectious
disease with a high fatality rate
- Pleurisy - Any pain in the chest area with
each breath
- Poliomyelitis - PolioPotter's asthma - Fibroid
pthisis
- Pott's Disease - Tuberculosis of spine
- Puking Fever - Milk sickness
- Putrid Fever - Diphtheria
- Quinsy - Tonsillitis
- Remitting Fever - Malaria
- Rheumatism - Any disorder associated with
pain in joints
- Rickets - Disease of skeletal system
- Rose Cold - Hay fever or nasal symptoms of
an allergy
- Rubeola - German measles
- Scarlatina - Scarlet fever
- Scarlet Fever - A disease characterized by
red rash
- Scarlet Rash - Roseola
- Sciatica - Rheumatism in the hips
- Screws - Rheumatism
- Scrofula - Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands.
Progresses slowly with abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's
disease.
- Scurvy - Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness,
spongy gums and hemorrhages under skin
- Septicemia - Blood poisoning
- Shakes - Delirium tremers
- Shingles - Viral disease with skin blisters
- Ship Fever - Typhus
- Siriasis- - Inflammation of the brain due
to sun exposure
- Sloes - Milk sickness
- Small Pox - Contagious disease with fever
and blisters
- 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 characterized by
intestinal disorders and sore throat
- St Anthony's - 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
- 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 characterized by
high fever, headache and dizziness
- Thrombosis - Blood clot inside blood vessel
- 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, Caused by poor nutrition and poor hygiene
- Tussis Convulsiva - Whooping cough
- Typhus - Infectious fever characterized high
fever, headache, and dizziness
- Variola - Smallpox
- 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 elevated temperature or diarrhea
- Yellowjacket - Yellow fever
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