ABLEPSY / ABLEPSIA |
Blindness |
ABSCESS |
A localized collection of pus buried in tissues, organs, or
confined spaces of the body, often accompanied by swelling and
inflammation and frequently caused by bacteria |
ACUTE MANIA |
Severe insanity |
ADDISON'S DISEASE |
A disease characterized by severe weakness, low blood pressure,
and a bronzed coloration of the skin, due to decreased secretion
of cortisol from the adrenal gland. Also known as bronzed skin
disease |
ADYNAMIA |
Loss of movement or strength as a result of disease |
AGLUTITION |
Inability to swallow |
AGUE |
Used to define the recurring fever & chills of malarial
infection |
AGUE-CAKE |
a hard tumor or swelling on the left side of the abdomen,
lower than the false rib, resulting from enlargement of the
spleen or liver, and believed to be the effect of intermittant
fevers - often Malaria |
AMERICAN PLAGUE |
Yellow fever |
AMBUSTIO |
Scalding or burns. |
ANASARCA |
Generalized massive oedema (swelling) |
ANCOME |
Ulcerous swelling |
ANTHRACOSIS |
Lung disease from breathing in coal dust. |
APHONIA |
Laryngitis |
APHTHA |
Thrush |
APOPLEXY |
Paralysis due to stroke |
ASPHYCSIA / ASPHICSIA |
Cyanotic and lack of oxygen |
ASCITES |
Collection of fluid in the abdomin, due liver disease or cancer
|
ATELECTASIS |
Callapsed lung or lungs |
ATROPHY |
Wasting away (generally from lack of use, i.e. muscles) |
BAD BLOOD |
Syphilis |
BARBER'S RASH or ITCH |
Possibly Impetigo infection of hair folicles from contaminated
razor |
BARREL FEVER |
Colloquial ? Illness due to excessive drinking of alcohol
|
BERIBERI |
Disease caused by a deficiency of thiamine / vitamin B1 |
BILIOUS FEVER |
Hepatitis - general Liver disorder, also sometimes Typhoid,
Malaria |
BILIOUSNESS |
Jaundice or other symptoms associated with liver disease;
gall bladder. may also have been any upset leading to vomiting
bile or just vomiting |
BLACKDAMP |
Asphyxiating gas, mainly carbon dioxide in mines |
BLACK FEVER |
Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions
and high death rate |
BLACK JAUNDICE |
Wiel's Disease; Black Water fever (deadly form of leptospirosis
) |
BLACK PLAGUE OR DEATH |
Bubonic plague |
BLACK POX |
Black Smallpox |
BLACK VOMIT |
Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever |
BLACKWATER FEVER |
Dark urine associated with high temperature (deadly form of
malaria) |
BLADDER IN THROAT |
Diphtheria (?) |
BLOOD POISONING |
Bacterial infection; septicemia |
BLOODY FLUX |
Bloody stools |
BLOODY SWEAT |
Sweating sickness (see English
Sweate) |
BONE SHAVE |
Sciatica |
BRAIN FEVER |
Meningitis |
BREAKBONE |
Dengue fever |
BRIGHT'S DISEASE |
Chronic inflammatory disease of the kidneys - Nephritis |
BRONZE JOHN |
Yellow fever |
BRUCELLOSIS |
Infection from contact with animals or animal products that
are contaminated with these bacteria. Brucellosis can cause
a range of symptoms that are similar to the flu and may include
fever, sweats, headaches, back pains, and physical weakness.
Serious infections of the central nervous systems or lining
of the heart may occur. Brucellosis can also cause long-lasting
or chronic symptoms that include recurrent fevers, joint pain,
and fatigue - See MILK FEVER |
BULE |
Boil, tumor or swelling |
CACHEXY |
Malnutrition |
COCAETHES |
Semi-permanent or recurring ill health |
CACOGASTRIC |
Upset stomach - indigestion |
CACHAEMIA |
Generally a blood disease or a poisoned condition of the blood
|
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 |
CAISSON DISEASE |
Decompression sickness (the bends in divers) affected those
who worked in caissons (chambers pressurised to keep out water)
e.g. for building foundations for bridges under rivers. If they
returned to normal pressure too quickly bubbles of nitrogen
would form in their joints and tissues causing extreme pain,
cramps & paralysis - & long term effects. |
CATALEPSY |
Seizures / trances |
CATARRHAL |
Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy |
CEREBRITIS |
Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning |
CEREBRAL EMBOLISM |
Stroke |
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; leukemia ( green fever ) |
CHOLECYSTITUS |
Inflammation of the gall bladder |
CHOLELITHIASIS |
Gall stones |
|
CHOLERA |
Acute severe contagious diarrhoea with intestinal lining damage |
CHOLERA MORBUS |
Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated
temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis |
CHOREA |
Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and "dancing" |
COLD PLAGUE |
Ague which is characterized by chills |
COLIC |
An abdominal pain and cramping |
COMMOTION |
Concussion |
CONGESTION |
Any collection of fluid in an organ, eg Tuberculosis in the
lungs |
CONGESTIVE CHILLS |
Malaria with diarrhoea |
CONGESTIVE FEVER |
Malaria |
CONSUMPTION |
Tuberculosis; Wasting sickness (read
a full page on Consumption) |
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 |
Inflammatory diseases of throat, tonsils or windpipe. |
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 |
oedema (swelling), abnormal collection of fluids in body cavities,
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 discharging urine, accompanied by pain and a
sensation of heat. |
ECLAMPSY |
Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labour |
ECSTASY |
A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason |
|
ELEPHANTIASIS |
A form of leprosy |
ENCEPHALITIS |
Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness |
ENGLISH SICKNESS |
Rickets - weak bone growth due lack of Calcium or vitamin
D / sunshine |
ENTERIC FEVER |
Typhoid fever |
ENTERITIS |
Inflammation of the bowels |
ENTEROCOLITIS |
Inflammation of the intestines |
EPITAXIS |
Nose bleed |
ERYSIPELAS |
Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular
and bulbous lesions |
ERYSIPELAS |
Contagious infection of the skin and underlying tissue, now
known to be caused by group A B-hemolytic streptococcus bacteria.
Erysipelas causes affected areas of skin to turn bright red
and become slightly swollen. The swollen blotches have a distinct
border and slowly expand into the surrounding skin. The lesions
are most commonly seen on the face, scalp, hands, and legs.
They feel hot to the touch and the patient is feverish. Centuries
ago erysipelas epidemics caused severe, often fatal infections
(St Anthony's Fire). Today erysipelas is a rather mild and relatively
rare infection that clears up rapidly when penicillin or other
antibiotics are taken |
ERYTHROBLASTOSIS |
Rhesus disease - destroys blood cells in new born baby if
mother has Rhesus antibodies which then pass through the placenta.
|
EXTRAVASATED BLOOD |
Rupture of a blood vessel, blood not in the normal circulation.
|
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 |
GALLOPING CONSUMPTION |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis |
GATHERING |
A collection of pus |
GLANDULAR FEVER |
Mononucleosis |
GOITER |
A noncancerous enlargement of the thyroid gland, visible
as a swelling at the front of the neck, that is often associated
with iodine deficiency. |
GOUT |
An inflammation, often a disturbance of uric-acid metabolism
occurring predominantly in males, characterized by painful inflammation
of the joints, especially of the feet and hands. |
GREAT POX |
Syphilis |
GREEN FEVER /
GREEN SICKNESS |
Anemia ( chlorosis ) often a disease of young women giving
the complexion a greenish tinge. |
GRIPPE / GRIP |
Flu or Influenza like symptoms |
GROCER'S ITCH |
Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour |
HALLUCINATION |
Delirium |
HEART SICKNESS |
Condition caused by loss of salt from body |
HEAT STROKE |
Body temperature elevates because of surrounding environmental
temperature and body does not perspire enough 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 |
Osteomyelitis, a staph infection |
HORRORS |
Delirium tremens |
HYDROCEPHALUS |
Enlarged head, water on the brain |
HYDROPERICARDIUM |
Heart dropsy |
HYDROPHOBIA |
Rabies |
HYDROTHORAX |
Dropsy in chest - Accumulation of fluid in one or both pleural
cavities |
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 Bile duct, Liver problems,
Hepatisis, causing yellowing of eyes, skin and mucus membranes.
( icterus ) |
KING'S EVIL |
Scrofula, a tubercular infection of the throat lymph glands;
also sometimes syphilis |
|
LA GRIPPE |
Flu; influenza |
LOCKJAW |
Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the
neck and jaw. It is fatal if untreated |
LUNG FEVER |
Pneumonia |
LUNG SICKNESS |
Tuberculosis |
LUES DISEASE |
Syphilis |
LUES VENERA |
Venereal disease; syphilis |
LUMBAGO |
Back pain |
LUNG FEVER |
Pneumonia |
LUNG SICKNESS |
Tuberculosis |
LYING IN |
Time of delivery of baby |
MALIGNANT SORE THROAT |
Diphtheria |
MANIA |
Insanity |
MARASMUS |
Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition |
MARSH MIASMA |
believed early term for Malaria ( sometimes called paludal
poison) |
MEMBRANOUS CROUP |
Diphtheria |
MENINGITIS |
Inflammation 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 |
Phlebitis; a painful swelling of the leg soon after childbirth,
due to thrombosis of the large veins; Painful swelling of the
leg beginning at the ankle and ascending or at the groin and
extending down the thigh... its usual cause is infection after
labor; 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; Infection |
MYELITIS |
Inflammation of the spine |
MYOCARDITIS |
Inflammation of heart muscles |
NECROSIS |
Mortification of bones or tissue |
NEPHROSIS |
Kidney degeneration |
NEPHRITIS |
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. Pain along the track of a nerve. |
NOSTALGIA |
Homesickness |
OEDEMA (EDEMA) |
Nephrosis; swelling of tissues |
OEDEMA OF LUNGS |
Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy |
|
PALUDAL POISON |
early name for Malaria |
PARISTHMITIS |
Quincy |
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 |
PHLEGMASIA ALBA DOLENS |
Milk Leg - Painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg
following childbirth |
PHRENITIS |
Early use: infammation of the brain, with acute fever and
delirium.
Later use: infammation of the diaphragm. |
PHTHIRIASIS |
Lice infestation |
PHTHISIS |
Chronic wasting away or an other 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, more specifically
inflammation of the membrane that covers the inside of the thorax,
accompanied by fever, pain and cough. |
PODAGRA |
Gout |
POLIOMYELITIS |
Polio |
POTTER'S ASTHMA |
Fibroid Phthisis - pthisis |
POTT'S DISEASE |
Tuberculosis of spine (more)
|
PROTEIN DISEASE |
Gomerulonephritis; a once relatively common childhood kidney
disease that causes the kidney to leak protein. This is a secondary
(allergic) reaction to certain kinds of strep infections |
PUERPERAL EXHAUSTION |
Death due to childbirth |
PUERPERAL FEVER |
Elevated temperature after giving birth, septic poisoning
which sometimes followed the birth of a child, sometimes onset
associated with the mother's first lactation (first milk flow).
|
PUKING FEVER |
Milk sickness |
PUTRID FEVER |
Diphtheria. |
QUINSY QUINCY |
Severe complication of tonsilitis which results in abscess
near the tonsils.
Before antibiotics available could be fatal. more
on Peritonsillar abscess |
REMITTING FEVER |
Malaria |
RHEUMATISM |
Any disorder associated with pain in joints |
RICKETS |
Disease of skeletal system resulting from a deficiency of
calcium or vitamin D in the diet, or from lack of sunlight |
ROSE COLD |
Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy |
RUBEOLA RUBELLA |
German measles |
SANGUINEOUS CRUST |
Scab |
SCARLATINA |
Scarlet fever |
SCARLET FEVER |
A disease characterized by red rash |
SCARLET RASH |
Roseola also German Measles |
SCIATICA |
Rheumatism in the hips - now pressure / damage to sciatic
nerve |
SCIRRHUS |
Cancerous tumors |
SCOTOMY |
Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight |
SCREWS |
Rheumatism |
SCRIVENER'S PALSY |
Writer's cramp |
SCROFULA |
Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with
abscesses and pistulas developing. (also
King's Evil - read more) |
SCRUMPOX |
Skin disease, impetigo |
SCURVY |
Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums and heamorrhages
under skin |
SEPTICEMIA |
Blood poisoning |
SHAKES |
Delirium tremens |
SHAKING |
Chills, ague |
SHINGLES |
Viral disease affecting nerves - 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 (quincy) |
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 ( Chorea ) |
STOMATITIS |
Inflammation of the mouth |
STRANGER'S FEVER |
Yellow fever |
STRANGURY |
Rupture, or slow painful urination, caused by muscular spasms
of the urethra and bladder |
SUDOR ANGLICUS |
Sweating sickness or "The English Sweate" (more
about Sweating Sickness) |
SUMMER COMPLAINT |
Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk |
SUNSTROKE |
Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environmental
heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause |
SWAMP SICKNESS |
Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis |
SWEATING SICKNESS |
Infectious and often fatal disease common to UK in 15th century.
Between 1485 and 1551 there were a series of epidemics across
the country, the outbreak of 1528 being the worst, killing tens
of thousands. This is NOT the Plague (bubonic fever) - Even
today medical historians do not know what the disease was -
symptoms: no rash or scabs, starts suddenly with a feeling of
fear or apprehension, cold shivers for a short time followed
by hot sweats for a few hours, head and limb aches, delirium,
rapid pulse, exhaustion & collapse. Surviving this illness
did not give immunity against future infection. (more)
|
TEETHING |
tooth infections with inflammation |
TETANUS |
Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache &
dizziness. ( Lockjaw ) |
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 ( very high blood pressure - fits ) |
TRENCH MOUTH |
Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor nutrition
and poor hygiene |
TUSSIS CONVULSIVA |
Whooping cough, Pertussis |
TYPHUS |
Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness |
VARIOLA |
Smallpox |
VENESECTION |
Bleeding by the opening of a vein for letting blood, ( phlebotomy
) |
VIPER'S DANCE |
St. Vitus Dance |
WATER ON BRAIN |
Enlarged head |
WHITE PLAGUE |
Consumption Tuberculosis (read
more about Consumption) |
WHITE SWELLING |
Tuberculosis of the bone (more
info on tubercle bacillus) |
WHITLOW |
Ulcerous swellings, a boil ( also ancome ) |
WHOOPING COUGH |
Tussis Convulsiva (early name,
now Pertussis) more info on Whooping Cough |
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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