This is the 2nd half of the list I just sent.
Linda
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From: debbiem(a)waymark.net (Debbie Mauelshagen)
To: SW_VA-L(a)rootsweb.com ('SW_VA-L')
Date: 97-11-18 08:34:23 EST
I hope this will help, It was a posting to another list.
Debbie M
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
>>Lues venera - Venereal disease
>>Lumbago - Back pain
>>Lung fever - Pneumonia
>>Lung sickness - Tuberculosis
>>Lying in - Time of delivery of infant
>>Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria
>>Mania - Insanity
>>Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition
>>Membranous Croup - Diphtheria
>>Meningitis - Inflations of brain or spinal cord
>>Metritis - Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge
>>Miasma - Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air
>>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
>>Morphew - Scurvy blisters on the body
>>Mortification - Gangrene of necrotic tissue
>>Myelitis - Inflammation of the spine
>>Myocarditis - Inflammation of heart muscles
>>Necrosis - Mortification of bones or tissue
>>Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration
>>Nepritis - Inflammation of kidneys
>>Nervous prostration - Extreme exhaustion from inability to control
>>physical and mental activities
>>Neuralgia - Described as discomfort, such as "Headache" was neuralgia
in
>>head
>>Nostalgia - Homesickness
>>Palsy - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles. It was
>>listed as "Cause of death"
>>Paroxysm - Convulsion
>>Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters
>>Pericarditis - Inflammation of heart
>>Peripneumonia - Inflammation of lungs
>>Peritonotis - Inflammation of abdominal area
>>Petechial Fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting
>>Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to child birth
>>Phthiriasis - Lice infestation
>>Phthisis - Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis
>>Plague - An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality
>>rate
>>Pleurisy - Any pain in the chest area with each breath
>>Podagra - Gout
>>Poliomyelitis - PolioPotter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis
>>Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of spine
>>Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to childbirth
>>Puerperal fever - Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant
>>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
>>Rotanny fever - (Child's disease) ???
>>Rubeola - German measles
>>Sanguineous crust - Scab
>>Scarlatina - Scarlet fever
>>Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by red rash
>>Scarlet rash - Roseola
>>Sciatica - Rheumatism in the hips
>>Scirrhus - Cancerous tumors
>>Scotomy - Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight
>>Scrivener's palsy - Writer's cramp
>>Screws - Rheumatism
>>Scrofula - Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with
>>abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's disease
>>Scrumpox - Skin disease, impetigo
>>Scurvy - Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums
>>and hemorrhages under skin
>>Septicemia - Blood poisoning
>>Shakes - Delirium tremens
>>Shaking - Chills, ague
>>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
>>Softening of brain - Result of stroke or hemorrhage in the brain, with
>>an end result of the tissue softening in that area
>>Sore throat distemper - Diphtheria or quinsy
>>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 fire - 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
>>Strangery - Rupture
>>Sudor anglicus - Sweating sickness
>>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
>>Toxemia of pregnancy - Eclampsia
>>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
>>Venesection - Bleeding
>>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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