Medical Conditions
| MEDICAL CONDITIONS | NAMES |
| ague | malarial fever |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| bad blood | syphilis |
| bilious fever | fever due to a liver disorder |
| black plague / black death | bubonic plague |
| black pox | black smallpox |
| black vomit | vomiting old (black) blood due to ulcers or yellow fever |
| blood poisoning | bacterial infection; septicemia |
| bloody flux | dysentery |
| bloody sweat | sweating sickness |
| bone shave | sciatica |
| breakbone | dengue fever |
| Bright's disease | kidney disease, glomerulonephritis |
| bronze john | yellow fever |
| cachexy | malnutrition |
| cacogastric | upset stomach |
| cacospysy | irregular pulse |
| camp fever | typhoid fever, aka camp diarrhea |
| catalepsy | condition which causes seizures, trances, or unconsciousness |
| catarrh | runny eyes & nose, influenza |
| chilblain | swelling of the extremities cause by exposure to cold |
| childbed fever | infection following childbirth, puerperal fever |
| chin cough | whooping cough |
| chlorosis | condition of pale or greenish skin, weakness, & dyspepsia |
| cholecystitis | inflammation of the gall bladder |
| cholelithiasis | stones of the gall bladder |
| chorea | disease characterized by convulsions, contortions, and dancing |
| cold plague | ague which is characterized by chills |
| congestive chills | malaria |
| consumption | pulmonary tuberculosis |
| cramp colic | appendicitis |
| crop sickness | overextended stomach |
| croup | laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat |
| cyanosis | blueness of skin due to lack of oxygen |
| cynanche | diseases of the throat |
| cystitis | inflammation of the bladder |
| day fever | a fever lasting one day, sweating sickness |
| decrepitude | feebleness due to old age |
| delirium tremens | hallucinations due to alcoholism |
| dengue | infectious fever endemic to East Africa |
| dentition | cutting of the teeth |
| deplumation | tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss |
| diary fever | a fever lasting one day |
| diptheria | contagious disease of the throat |
| dock fever | yellow fever |
| dropsy | congestive heart failure |
| dropsy of the brain | encephalitis |
| dry bellyache | lead poisoning |
| dyscrasy | an abnormal body condition |
| dysorexy | reduced appetite |
| dyspepsia | bad digestion |
| dysury | difficulty in urination |
| eclampsy | symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor |
| ecstasy | a form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason |
| edema | nephrosis, swelling of tissues |
| edema of lungs | congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy |
| eel thing | erysipelas |
| elephantiasis | a form of leprosy |
| encephalitis | swelling of the brain, aka sleeping sickness |
| enteric fever | typhoid fever |
| enterocolitis | inflammation of the intestines |
| enteritis | inflammation of the bowels |
| epitaxis | nose bleed |
| erysipelas | skin disease caused by an infection of the blood, aka St. Anthony's Fire |
| fatty liver | cirrhosis of the liver |
| flux | discharge of fluid from the body |
| flux Of humor | circulation |
| gathering | a collection of pus |
| glandular fever | mononucleosis |
| gout | chronic metabolic disorder affecting the joints, associated with hypertension and kidney disease |
| goitre | enlarged thyroid gland which affects body's metabolism |
| grippe | the flu; influenza |
| Grave's disease | thryotoxicosis |
| grocer's itch | skin disease caused by mites in sugar and flour |
| heart sickness | condition cause by loss of salt from the body |
| hectical complaint | recurrent fever |
| hematemesis | vomiting blood |
| hematuria | bloody urine |
| hemiplegy | paralysis of one side of the body |
| horrors | delirium tremens |
| hydrocephalus | dropsy of the brain, water on the brain |
| hydropericardium | heart dropsy |
| hydrophobia | fear of water, rabies |
| hydrothorax | dropsy in the chest |
| hypertropy of heart | enlarged heart |
| impetigo | contagious skin disease characterized by pustules |
| infantile paralysis | polio |
| intestinal colic | abdominal pain due to improper diet |
| jail fever | typhus |
| jaundice | condition caused by blockage of the intestines |
| keuchhusten | whooping cough |
| king's evil | scrofula |
| lock jaw | tetanus |
| lung fever | pneumonia |
| lung sickness | tuberculosis |
| marasmus | condition caused by malnutrition or intestinal disease |
| meningitis | inflammation of the brain or spinal cord |
| miasma | poisonous vapors thought to infect the air |
| milk fever | fever which effects lactating women |
| milk sickness | disease from the milk from cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds |
| mormal | gangrene |
| morphew | scurvy blisters on the body |
| myelitis | inflammation of the spine |
| myocarditits | inflammation of the heart muscles |
| necrosis | mortification of bones or tissue |
| nepritis | inflammation of the kidneys |
| nephrosis | kidney degeneration |
| neuralgia | affliction of the nerves causing pain |
| palsy | paralysis or loss of muscle control |
| paroxysm | convulsion |
| pemphigus | skin disease of watery blisters |
| pericarditits | inflammation of the heart |
| peripneumonia | inflammation of the lungs |
| peritonitis | inflammation of the abdominal area |
| petechial fever | fever characterized by spotting of the skin |
| phthiriasis | lice infestation |
| phthisis | wasting away of the body due to tuberculosis or consumption |
| pleurisy | inflammation of the thorax |
| podagra | gout |
| poliomyelitis | polio |
| Potter's asthma | fibroid phthisis |
| Pott's disease | tuberculosis of the spine |
| puerperal exhaustion | death due to childbirth |
| puerperal fever | septic poisoning associated with childbirth |
| puking fever | milk sickness |
| putrid fever | typhus or diphtheria |
| quinsy | streptococcal tonsillitis |
| remitting fever | malaria |
| rheumatism | disease of the joints |
| rickets | disease of the skeletal system caused by Vitamin D deficiency |
| rubeola | German measles |
| Saint Anthony's fire | erysipelas |
| Saint Vitus' dance | chorea |
| scariatina | scarlet fever |
| scarlet fever | a disease characterized by a red rash and sore throat |
| scarlet rash | roseola |
| sciatica | rheumatism in the hips |
| scirrhus | cancerous tumors |
| scotomy | dizziness, nausea, and dimness of sight |
| scrivener's palsy | writer's cramp |
| scrofula | tuberculosis of the neck lymph nodes |
| scrumpox | skin disease, impetigo |
| septicemia | blood poisoning |
| shakes | delirium tremens |
| shaking | chills, ague |
| shingles | viral diseases characterized by skin blisters |
| ship fever | typhus |
| sirasis | inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure |
| sloes | milk sickness |
| small pox | contagious disease characterized by fever and blisters |
| softening of the brain | apoplexy |
| Spanish influenza | an epidemic influenza |
| spina bifida | deformity of the spine |
| spotted fever | typhus, cerebrospinal meningitis fever |
| sprue | tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat |
| stomatitis | inflammation of the mouth |
| stranger's fever | yellow fever |
| sudor anglicus | sweating sickness |
| summer complaint | diarrhea |
| sweating sickness | infectious & fatal disease common to the UK in the 15th century |
| tetanus | infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache, & dizziness |
| thrombosis | blood clot inside a blood vessel |
| thrush | childhood disease characterized by white spots on the mouth, lips, and throat |
| thyrotoxicosis | a disease affecting the thyroid gland |
| toxemia of pregnancy | eclampsia |
| tussis convulsiva | whooping cough |
| typhus | infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache, & dizziness |
| viper's dance | Saint Vitus' Dance |
| winter fever | pneumonia |
This list was kindly contributed by Barbara Starr (NSW) from sources unknown and there have been a few additions. For those who have extra medical conditions to add please send them to Andrew Billinghurst.
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Last modified: Friday, 15-Aug-1997 01:21:59 MDT