Old Medical Terms

Ablepsia - Blindness
African Consumption - Tuberculosis
Ansasrca - Generalized Dropsy
Ague -Recurring fever & chills of Malaria
Angina Pectoris - Paroxysms with severe pain in lower chest, feeling of suffocation
Apoplexy - Stroke
Bad Blood - Syphilis
Bethlehemite - Mentally ill person
Bilious fever - Fever, liver disorder the cause
Black Death - typhus
Black Lung - From breathing coal dust
Black Plague - Bubonic Plague
Black Pox - Smallpox
Bloody Flux - Dysentery
Brain Fever - Meningitis
Bright's Disease - Kidney Inflammation
Bronze John - Yellow Fever
Camp Fever - Typhus
Canine Madness - Hydrophobia (Rabies)
Catarrh - (1) Inflammation of Mucous Membrane or (2) Cerebral Hemorrhage (Apoplexy)
Cerebritis - Inflammation of the Brain
Childbed Fever- Infection following Childbirth
Chin Cough - Whooping cough
Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with bleeding
Chorea - St. Vitus Dance
Commotion - Concussion
Congestive Chill - Accumulation of the blood in the blood vessels
Congestive Fever - Malaria
Consuption - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Corruption - Infection
Coryza - Cold
Cramp Colic - Appendicitis
Day Fever - sweating sickness
Debilitas - Weakness of the Body
Devonshire Colic - Exposure to lead
Dropsy - Edema caused by kidney or heart disease
Dysentery - Inflammation of intestinal mucous membrane
Dyspepsia - Acid Indigestion
Enteric Fever - Typhoid Fever
Enteritis - Intestinal inflammation
Extravasated blood - Ruptured blood vessel
Falling Sickness - Epilepsy
Fits - Convulsions
Flus of Humour - Circulation
Flux - Fluid discharge; diarrhea or hemorrhage
French Disease - Syphilis
French Pox - Venereal Disease
Galloping Consumption - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Glandular Fever - Mononucleosis
Great Pox - Syphilis
Green Sickness - Anemia
Grippe - Influenza
Hallucination - Delirium
Hematuria - Bloody urine
Hemiplegy - Paralysis of the body
Hip Gout - Osteomyelitis
Hydrophobia - Rabies
Hydrothroax - Dropsy in the chest
Ictus Solis - Sunstroke
Impedigo - Contagious skin disease
Infantile Paralysis - Polio
Jail Fever - Typhus
Jaundice - (Yellow skin) condition caused by intestinal blockage
King's Evil - Scrofula; Tuberculosis characterized by a swelling of the neck glands
La Grippe - Flu
Lockjaw - Tetanus affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw
Lues Venera - Venereal Disease
Lumbago - Pain in lower back, hip, or thigh: Sciatica
Lung fever - Pneumonia
Lung Sickness - Tuberculosis
Mania - Insanity
Mirasmus - Emaciation
Milk Leg - Inflammation of leg
Morbus - Disease
Morfew - Scurvy Blisters on the body
Mormal - Gangrene
Mortification - Infection
Necrosis - Motification of bones or tissue
Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration
Nostalgia - Homesickness
Painter's Colic - Exposure to lead
Paroxysm - Convulsion
Petechial Fever - Fever with skin spotting
Phthisis - Pulmonary Consumption
Pleurisy - Inflammation of Lung
Pox - Syphilis
Puerperal Exhaustion - Death due to child birth
Puerperal Fever - Infection following childbirth
Putrid Fever - Diphtheria
Quinsey - Tonsillitis
Remitting Fever - Malaria
Sanguinous Crust - Scab
Scirrhus - Cancerous Tumors
Scorbutus - Lack of Vitamin C
Screws - Rheumatism
Scrofula - (see King's Evil)
Scrumpox - Impetigo
Senile Gangrene - Hardening of the Arteries
Ship's Fever - Typhus
Sloes - Milk Sickness
Sore Throat Distemper - Quinsey
St. Anthony's Fire - Skin Infection
St. Vitus' Dance - Nervous Twitches
Tetanus - Lockjaw
Thrombosis - Blood clot in a blood vessel
Thrush - Childhood disease with spots on the mouth, lips and throat
Tick Fever - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Trench mouth - Ulcers along the gumline from poor nutrition or hygiene
Tussis Convulsiva - Whooping Cough
Typhus - Infectious Fever
Ulcus - Ulcer
Variola - Smallpox
Venesection - Bleeding
Water on the Brain - Hydrocephalus, Elarged head or maybe Downs Syndrome
White Swelling - Tuberculosis of the Bone
Whitlow - Boil
Winter Fever - Pneumonia
Womb Fever - Infection of the Uterus
Yellow Jacket - Yellow Fever
Yellow Landers - Jaundice