GLOSSARY OF DISEASES
AMERICAN PLAGUE ? yellow fever
APOPLEXY ? paralysis due to stroke
BAD BLOOD ? Syphilis
BILIOUSNESS ? liver disease symptoms
Bilious is defined as having an undue amount of bile. Bilious
fever is defined as a fever _supposed_ to be caused by a liver
disorder. (It probably also has something to do with gallbladder
disease.)
BLOOD POISONING ? Septicemia (overwhelming bacterial
BRAIN FEVER ? today known as meningitis
BRIGHT'S DISEASE ? Glomerulonephritis (kidney inflammation)
CATALEPSY ? seizures/trances
CHLOROSIS ? iron deficiency anemia
CHOLERA ? an acute infectious disease characterized by severe diarrhea,
vomiting, muscle cramps and prostration. The severe dehydration
leads to shock and death.
CONGESTIVE FEVER ? malaria
CONSUMPTION ? Tuberculosis, pulmonary
CRETINISM ? Hypothyroidism, congential
DROPSY ? Congestive heart failure
??taken from an old "Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary" ?
'dropsy; from Hydrops, a condition rather than a disease. Morbid
accumulation of water in the tissues and cavities.' It goes on
to mention dropsy of the amnion, belly, brain, heart, chest,
peritoneum, tubes (e.g. fallopian) and uterus. It could be
congestive heart failure or just a general accumulation of fluid
in unwanted places. (Not the bladder after too much beer though!
#1? A condition rather than a disease. Morbid accumulation of
water in the tissues and cavities. (chest=thorax)
#2? a fever with vomiting of bile. (a symptom due to disordered
condition of the liver.
FATTY LIVER ? Cirrhosis
GLANDULAR FEVER ? Mononucleosis
GRIPPE ? an old term for influenza
JAIL FEVER ? Typhus
LOCK JAW ? Tetanus
LUNG FEVER ? pneumonia
LUNG SICKNESS ? Tuberculosis
MILK SICK ? poisoning resulting from the drinking of milk produced by a
cow who had eaten a plant known as white snake root
MORMAL ? gangreen
PLAGUE/BLACK DEATH ? Bubonic Plague
PODAGRA ? Gout
POTTS DISEASE ? Tuberculosis of the spinal vertebrae
QUINSY ? another name for tonsillitis
SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN ? cerebral hemorrhage/stroke
VARIOLA ? smallpox
WINTER FEVER ? pneumonia
Source: Concise Genealogical Dictionary, compiled by Maurine
and Glen Harris, pub. Ancestry Pub., SLC, UT, 1989
Michael O. Reck
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