I thought that someone on the list might be interested in this chart. I hope
it helps someone.
Linda
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Forwarded message:
From: debbiem(a)waymark.net (Debbie Mauelshagen)
To: SW_VA-L(a)rootsweb.com ('SW_VA-L')
Date: 97-11-18 08:34:09 EST
>>250 lines it will be split into two postings.
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>>Ablepsy - Blindness
>>Ague - Malarial Fever
>>American plague - Yellow fever
>>Anasarca - Generalized massive edema
>>Aphonia - Laryngitis
>>Aphtha - The infant disease "thrush"
>>Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke
>>Asphycsia/Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen
>>Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size.
>>Bad Blood - Syphilis
>>Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and
>>bile emesis
>>Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease
>>Black plague or 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 (Seen on death certificates)
>>Blood poisoning - Bacterial infection; septicemia
>>Bloody flux - Bloody stools
>>Bloody sweat - Sweating sickness
>>Bone shave - Sciatica
>>Brain fever - Meningitis
>>Breakbone - Dengue fever
>>Bright's disease - Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
>>Bronze John - Yellow fever
>>Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling
>>Cachexy - Malnutrition
>>Cacogastric - Upset stomach
>>Cacospysy - Irregular pulse
>>Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy
>>Camp fever - Typhus; aka Camp diarrhea
>>Canine madness - Rabies, hydrophobia
>>Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
>>Catalepsy - Seizures / trances
>>Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy
>>Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
>>Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold
>>Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child
>>Chin cough - Whooping cough
>>Chlorosis - Iron deficiency anemia
>>Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining
>>sloughing
>>Cholera morbus - Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps,
>>elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis
>>Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder
>>Cholelithiasis - Gall stones
>>Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing
>>Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills
>>Colic - An abdominal pain and cramping
>>Congestive chills - Malaria
>>Consumption - Tuberculosis
>>Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs
>>Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea
>>Congestive fever - Malaria
>>Corruption - Infection
>>Coryza - A cold
>>Costiveness - Constipation
>>Cramp colic - Appendicitis
>>Crop sickness - Overextended stomach
>>Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat
>>Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood
>>Cynanche - Diseases of throat
>>Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder
>>Day fever - Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness
>>Debility - Lack of movement or staying in bed
>>Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age
>>Delirium tremens - Hallucinations due to alcoholism
>>Dengue - Infectious fever endemic to East Africa
>>Dentition - Cutting of teeth
>>Deplumation - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss
>>Diary fever - A fever that lasts one day
>>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
>>Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition
>>Dysentery - Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and
>>blood
>>Dysorexy - Reduced appetite
>>Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms
>>Dysury - Difficulty in urination
>>Eclampsy - Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor
>>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
>>Eel thing - Erysipelas
>>Elephantiasis - A form of leprosy
>>Encephalitis - Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness
>>Enteric fever - Typhoid fever
>>Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines
>>Enteritis - Inflations of the bowels
>>Epitaxis - Nose bleed
>>Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular
>>and bulbous lesions
>>Extravasted blood - Rupture of a blood vessel
>>Falling sickness - Epilepsy
>>Fatty Liver - Cirrhosis of liver
>>Fits - Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity
>>Flux - An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or
>>diarrhea
>>Flux of humour - Circulation
>>French pox - Syphilis
>>Gathering - A collection of pus
>>Glandular fever - Mononucleosis
>>Great pox - Syphilis
>>Green fever / sickness - Anemia
>>Grippe/grip - Influenza like symptoms
>>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
>>Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever
>>Hematemesis - Vomiting blood
>>Hematuria - Bloody urine
>>Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of body
>>Hip gout - Osteomylitis
>>Horrors - Delirium tremens
>>Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain
>>Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy
>>Hydrophobia - Rabies
>>Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest
>>Hypertrophic - Enlargement of organ, like the heart
>>Impetigo - Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules
>>Inanition - Physical condition resulting from lack of food
>>Infantile paralysis - Polio
>>Intestinal colic - Abdominal pain due to improper diet
>>Jail fever - Typhus
>>Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines
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