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19th Century Medical Terms
A BLEPSIA - blindnessACCOUCHEMENT - Process of giving birth
AGLUTITION
- inability to swallow, frequently found on death certificates
AGUE
- recurring fever and chills of of malaria
AGUE-CAKE - a hard tumour or swelling on the left side of the abdomen, lower than the false rib, resulting from enlargement of the spleen or liver, and supposed to be the effect of intermitting fevers
ANASCARCA
- Generalized massive oedema
ANCOME
- [whitlow] an ulcerous swelling, a boil
APHONIA
- Laryngitis APOPLEXY - stroke APHTHA - The infant disease "thrush" ASPHYCSIA/ASPHICSIA - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen ATROPHY - Wasting away or diminishing in size.
BARREL FEVER - sickness
produced by immoderate drinking
BILIOUS
FEVER - fever caused by liver disorder
BLACK PLAGUE OR DEATH - Bubonic
plague BLACK
FEVER - Acute infection with high
temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate
BLACK
LUNG - disease from breathing coal dust
BLACK POX - Black Small pox BLACKWATER FEVER - Dark urine associated with high temperature BLADDER IN THROAT - Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates) BLOOD POISONING - Bacterial infection; septicaemia BLOODY
FLUX - dysentery
BLOODY
SWEAT - a sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood BRAIN FEVER - Meningitis BREAKBONE - Dengue fever
BULE - Boil, tumour or swelling
CACHEXY - Malnutrition CACOGASTRIC - Upset stomach CACOSPYSY - Irregular pulse CADUCEUS - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy CAMP
FEVER - typhus CANINE MADNESS - Rabies, hydrophobia CANKER - Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
CATARRH
- inflammation of the mucous membrane which caused profuse running of the
eyes and nose CEREBRITIS - Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
CHILD BED FEVER - Infection following birth of a child
CHIN
COUGH - [WHOOPING COUGH] characterized by breathing difficulties, and in its
worst stage, convulsions
CHLOROSIS
- Iron deficiency anaemia CHOLERA
- Acute severe contagious diarrhoea with intestinal lining sloughing CHOLERA
MORBUS - Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps,elevated
temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis CHOLECYSTITUS
- Inflammation of the gall bladder CHOLELITHIASIS
- Gall stones CHOREA - Disease
characterized by convulsions and contortions COLD
PLAGUE - Ague which is characterized by chills COLIC
- An abdominal pain and cramping
CONGESTIVE
FEVER - malaria
CONGESTION - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs
CONGESTIVE
CHILLS - Malaria with diarrhoea CORRUPTION - infection CORYZA - A cold COSTIVENESS - Constipation COUP DE SOLEIL - Sun stroke CRAMP COLIC - Appendicitis CROP SICKNESS - Overextended stomach CROUP - Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat CYANOSIS - Dark skin colour from lack of oxygen in blood CYANCHE - Diseases of throat CYSTITIS - Inflammation of the bladder
DEBILITY - General state of feebleness and weakness DECREPITUDE - Feebleness due to old age DELIRIUM TREMENS - Hallucinations due to alcoholism DENGUE - Infectious fever endemic to East Africa DENTITION - Cutting of teeth DEPLUMATION - Tumour of the eyelids which causes hair loss DIARY FEVER - A fever that lasts one day DIPHTHERIA - an infectious disease which could be spread by infected milk, characterized by the production of a systemic toxin and the formation of a false membrane on the lining of the mucous membrane of the throat and other respiratory passages, causing difficulty in breathing, high fever, and weakness DISTEMPER -
Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia DOCK FEVER - yellow
fever DROPSY
- an abnormal collection of fluid in the tissues and cavities of the body
DROPSY OF THE BRAIN - encephalitis DRY BELLYACHE - Lead poisoning DYSCRASY - An abnormal body condition
DYSPEPSIA - bad digestion usually involving weakness, loss of appetite, and depression DYSOREXY
- Reduced appetite
ECSTASY - A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason ELEPHANTIASIS - A form of leprosy ENCEPHALITIS - Swelling of brain; ' sleeping sickness' ENTERIC FEVER - Typhoid fever EPITAXIS - Nose bleed ENTEROCOLITIS - Inflammation of the intestines
ENTERITIS
- Inflammation of the intestines, could also take the form of enteric fever
(typhoid)
ERYSIPHELAS
- [Saint Anthony's Fire] a skin disease caused by strep infection which
devastates the blood
EXCRESCENCE
- an unnatural or disfiguring outgrowth of the skin
EXTRAVASTED
BLOOD - Rupture of a blood vessel
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 haemorrhage or diarrhoea FLUX OF HUMOUR - Circulation FRENCH POX - Syphilis
GATHERING - A collection of pus GLANDULAR FEVER - Mononucleosis
GOITER
- [struma] a non cancerous enlargement of the thyroid gland, visible as a
swelling at the front of the neck, that is often associated with iodine
deficiency GOUT
- a disturbance of uric-acid metabolism occurring predominantly in males,
characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, especially of the feet
and hands
GRAVEL - kidney stones
GRAVE'S
DISEASE - disorder of the thyroid gland GREAT POX - Syphilis
GREEN
SICKNESS - [CHLOROSIS] anaemia; a disease of young women giving the
complexion a greenish tinge
GROCER'S
ITCH - a cutaneous disease caused by mites in sugar and flour GRIPE
/ LA GRIPPE - influenza
HEAT
SICKNESS - a condition marked especially by cessation of sweating and
extremely high body temperature, caused by a loss of salt from the body
HEAT STROKE - Body temperature elevates because of surrounding environment
temperature and body does not perspire to reduce temperature. Coma and death
result if not reversed
HECTICAL COMPLAINT - Recurrent fever
HAEMATEMESIS
- vomiting blood
HAEMATURIA
- a discharge of bloody urine
HEMIPHLEGY
- a palsy or paralysis that affects one side of the body
HIP GOUT - Osteomyelitis HORRORS - Delirium tremens
HYDROCEPHALUS - Enlarged head, water on the brain
HYDROPERICARDIUM - Heart dropsy
HYDROPHOBIA - Rabies
HYDROTHORAX - Dropsy in chest
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 INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS - Gastroenteritis INTERMITTENT FEVER - recurring fever, possibly malaria INTESTINAL
COLIC - Abdominal pain due to improper diet
JAIL
FEVER - Typhus
JAUNDICE
- a condition caused by obstruction of bile and characterized by yellowness
of the skin, fluids and tissues, and by constipation, loss of appetite, and
weakness
KING'S
EVIL - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands
KRUCHHUSTEN - Whooping cough
LAGRIPPE - Influenza
LOCKHAW - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck
and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days
LONG
SICKNESS - Tuberculosis
LUES
DISEASE - Syphilis
LUES VENERA - Venereal disease
LUMBAGO - Back pain
LUNG
FEVER - Pneumonia
LUNG
SICKNESS - Tuberculosis
LYING
IN - Time of delivery of infant
MALIGNANT SORE THROAT - Diphtheria MANIA - Insanity MARASMUS - Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition MEMBRANOUS CROUP - Diphtheria MENINGITIS - Inflations of brain or spinal cord METRITIS - Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge MIASMA - Poisonous vapours thought to infect the air MILK FEVER - Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant fever or brucellosis MILK LEG - 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 MYELITIS - Inflammation of the spine MYOCARDITIS - Inflammation of heart
muscles
NECROSIS - Mortification of bones or tissue NEPHROSIS - Kidney degeneration NEPHRITIS - Inflammation of kidneys NERVOUS PROSTRATIOIN - Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities NEURALGIA - Described as discomfort, such as "Headache" was neuralgia in head NEURASTHENIA
- neurotic condition characterised by worry, disturbances of digestion and
circulation and attributed to emotional conflict and feelings of NOSTALGIA - Homesickness
OEDEMA
- swelling of tissues
OEDEMA of lungs - Congestive heart failure, a form of
dropsy
PALSY - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles.
PAROXYSM - Convulsion
PEMPHIGUS - Skin disease of watery blisters
PERICARDITIS - Inflammation of heart
PERIPNEUMONIA - Inflammation of lungs
PERITONITIS - Inflammation of abdominal area
PETECHIAL
FEVER - Fever characterized by skin spotting
PUERPERAL
EXHAUSTION - Death due to child birth
PHTHIRIASIS - Lice infestation
PHTHISIS - Chronic wasting away or a 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
PODAGRA - Gout
POTTS
DISEASE - Tuberculosis of spine
POX
- syphilis PUERPERAL FEVER - Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant
PUKING FEVER - Milk sickness
PULMONARY CONSUMPTION - Tuberculosis of the lungs
PUTRID FEVER - Diphtheria.
QUINSY / QUINCY - severe attack of tonsillitis which resulted in abscess near the tonsils
REMITTING FEVER - Malaria RHEUMATISM
- a painful disease affecting muscles and joints, chiefly the larger joints
SANGUINEOUS
CRUST - Scab
SCARLATINA - Scarlet fever
SCARLET
FEVER - A disease characterized by red rash
SCARLET
RASH - Roseola
SCIATICA - Rheumatism in the hips
SCIRRHUS - Cancerous
tumours
SCOTOMY - Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight
SCRIVENER'S
PALSY - Writer's cramp Screws - Rheumatism
SCROFULA - Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands.
SCRUMPOX - Skin disease, impetigo
SCURVY - Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums and
hemorrhages under skin
SEPTICAEMIA - Blood poisoning
SHAKES - Delirium tremens
SHAKING - Chills, ague
SHINGLES - Viral disease 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 haemorrhage in the brain, with an end result of the
tissue softening in that area
SORE
THROAT DISTEMPER - Diphtheria or quinsy
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
STOMATITIS - Inflammation of the mouth
STRANGER'S
FEVER - Yellow fever
STRANGERY - Rupture
SUDOR
ANGLICUS - Sweating sickness
SUMMER
COMPLAINT - Diarrhoea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk
SUNSTROKE - Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environment
heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause
SWAMP
SICKNESS - Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
SWEATING
SICKNESS - Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th
century
TETANUS - Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness THROMBOSIS - Blood clot inside blood vessel THRUSH - Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat TICK FEVER - Rocky mountain spotted fever TOXAEMIA OF PREGNANCY - Eclampsia TRENCH MOUTH - Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor nutrition and poor hygiene TUSIS CONVULSIVA - Whooping cough TYPHUS - Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness
ULCERATION
- loss of the surface covering, such as of skin or the mucous lining, of the
intestine
VARIOLA - Smallpox VENESECTION - Bleeding VIPER'S DANCE - St. Vitus Dance
WHITLOW - an ulcerous swelling, a boil WHOOPING
COUGH - [PERTUSSIS or CHIN COUGH] a highly contagious disease of the
respiratory system, usually affecting children, that is characterized in its
advanced stage by spasms of coughing interspersed with deep, noisy
inspirations 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 diarrhoea
YELLOW
JACKET - yellow fever |