Old disease definitions

This is a list of old diseases and their definitions
that may be helpful to you in your research.

Acute Mania	Severe insanity
Addison's Disease	Marked by weakness, loss of weight, low blood pressure, gastrointestinal disturbances and brownish pigmentation of the skin.
Ague	Recurring fever & chills of malarial infection. Also known as "Chill fever", "the Shakes".
American Plague	Yellow fever
Aphonia	Laryngitis
Apthae	Thrush
Apoplexy	Paralysis due to stroke
Atrophy	Wasting away or diminishing in size
Bad Blood	Syphilis
Bilious Fever	A term applied to certain intestinal and malarial fevers. (Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis for elevated temperature)
Biliousnes	Jaundice or other symptoms of liver disease
Black Fever	Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortailty rate.
Blak plague	Bubonic plague
Black pox	Black Small pox
Blood Poisoning	Bacterial infection; Septicemia
Bloody flux	Bloody stools
Bloody sweat	Sweating sickness
Brain fever	Meningitis or typhus
Bright's disease	kidney disease
Camp Fever	Typhus
Cancer	A malignant and invasive growth or tumor.
Canine Madness	Hydrophobia
Carditis	Inflammation of the heart wall
Catalepsy	Seizures/trances
Cerebritis	Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
Child bed fever	Infection following birth of a child
Chin cough	Whooping cough
Cholera	Acute sever contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing.
Cold plague	Ague
Colic	Paroxysmal pain in the abdomen or bowels. Can occur from disease in the kidney.
Congestion	An excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part or blood vessel. In congestive fever the internal organs become gorged with blood.
Convulsions	Severe contortion of the body cause by violent, involuntary muscular contractions of the extremities, trunk and head.
Congestive chills	Malaria with diarrhea
Congestive fever	Malaria
Corruption	Infection
Crop sickness	Overextended stomach
Croup	Spasmodic laryngitis, marked by episodes of difficult breathing and hoarse metallic cough.
Cyanosis	Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood.
Cystitis	Inflammation of the bladder
Day fever	fever lasting one day
Domestic illness	Mental breakdown, depression, Alzheimers, Parkinsons or the after effects of a stroke.
Dropsy	Swelling with the presence of abnormally large amounts of fluid, often caused by kidney or heart disease.
Dropsy of the brain	Encephalitis
Dry bellyache	Lead poisoning
Dysentery	Inflammation of the colon.
Eclampsia	A form of toxins in the blood accompanying pregnancy.
Edema	Swelling of tissues
Edema of lungs	Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy
Emphysema	A chronic irreversible disease of the lungs
Encephalitis	Swelling of brain; "sleeping sickness"
Epilepsy	A disorder of the nervous system
Falling Sickness	Epilepsy
Fatty Liver	Cirrhosis of liver
Fits	Sudden attack or seizures
Flux	Dysentery.
French Pox	Venereal disease. Syphilis
Gangrene	Death or decay of tissue in a part of the body---usually a limb.
Gout	Any inflammation caused by the formation of crystals of oxalic acid accumulating in the body.
Great pox	Syphilis
Green fever	Anemia
Heart Sickness	Caused by loss of salt from the body.
Heat stroke	Body temperature rises and body does not perspire to reduce temperature.
Hives	A skin eruption of smooth, slightly elevated areas on the skin which is redder or paler than the surrounding skin. A common cause of death of children three years and under.
Hydrocephalus	Enlarged head, water on the brain. Dropsy.
Impetigo	Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules
Infantile paralysis	Polio
Inflammation	Redness, swelling, pain, tenderness, heat and disturbed function of an area of the body.
Intestinal colic	Abdominal pain due to improper diet.
Jaundice	Yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes and mucous membranes, due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood.
Kruchhusten	Whooping cough
Lockjaw	Tetanus, a disease in which the jaws become firmly locked together. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days.
Long sickness	Tuberculosis
Lung fever	Pneumonia
Lung Sickness	Tuberculosis
Mania	insanity
Membranous Croup	Diphtheria
Meningitis	Inflammation of the meninges characterized by high fever, severe headache, and stiff neck or back muscles. Known as "brain fever".
Milk Fever	Disease from drinking contaminated milk.
Milk Leg	A painful swelling of the leg beginning at the ankle and ascending, or at the groin and extending down the thigh. It is usual cause is infection after labor.
Milk Sick	Poising resulting from the drinking of milk produced by a cow who had eaten a plant known as white snake root.
Neurasthenia	Neurotic condition
Palsy	Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles.
Pericariditis	Inflammation of the heart.
Phthiriasis	Lice infestation
Phthisis	Consumption.---Chronic wasting away.
Pleurisy	Inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the chest cavity.
Pneumonia	Inflammation of the lungs
Rheumatism	Any disorder associated with pain in the joints
Rickets	Disease of skeletal system.
Scarlet fever	Disease characterized by red rash.
Scurvy	Lack of Vitamin C.
Septic	Infected.
Shakes	Delirium tremors
Shaking	Chills, ague
Ship's fever	Typhus
Small pox	Contagious disease with fever and blisters.
Teething	Often reported as a cause of death in infants. Symptoms were restlessness, convulsions, diarrhea and painful and swollen gums.
Tetanus	An infectious, often-fatal disease caused by a specific bacterium that enters the body through wounds.
Thrombosis	Blood clot inside a blood vessel.
Thrush	A disease characterized by whitish spots and ulcers on the membranes of the mouth and tongue cause by a parasitic fungus.
Toxemia of pregnancy	Eclampsia
Typhoid Fever	An infectious, often-fatal disease, usually occurring in the summer months--characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration.
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.
Yellow jacket	Yellow fever