Todays list of old illnesses are A - E

A

Ablepsy = Blindness
Ague = Malarial Fever
American plague = Yellow fever.
Anasarca = Generalized massive edema.
Aphonia = Laryngitis.
Aphtha = The infant disease “thrush”.
Apoplexy = Paralysis due to stroke.
Asphycsia/Asphicsia =Cyanotic and lack of oxygen.
Atrophy =Wasting away or diminishing in size.

B

Bad Blood = Syphilis
Bilious fever = Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis.
Biliousness = Jaundice associated with liver disease.
Black plague or death = Bubonic plague.
Black fever = Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate.
Black pox = Black Small pox
Black vomit = Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever
Blackwater fever = Dark urine associated with high temperature.
Bladder in throat = Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates)
Blood poisoning = Bacterial infection; septicemia
Bloody flux = Bloody stools
Bloody sweat = Sweating sickness
Bone shave = Sciatica
Brain fever = Meningitis
Breakbone = Dengue fever
Bright’s disease = Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
Bronze John = Yellow fever
Bule = Boil, tumor or swelling.

C

Cachexy = Malnutrition
Cacogastric = Upset stomach
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.
Catalepsy = Seizures / trances.
Catarrhal = Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy.
Cerebritis = Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
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.
Cholera = Acute severe contagious diarrhea 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, contortions and dancing.
Cold plague = Ague which is characterized by chills
Colic = An abdominal pain and cramping
Congestive chills = Malaria
Consumption = Tuberculosis.
Congestion = Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs.
Congestive chills = Malaria with diarrhea.
Congestive fever = Malaria.
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 = Diseases of throat
Cystitis = Inflammation of the bladder

D

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 = Edema (swelling), 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
Dysorexy = Reduced appetite of mucous and blood.
Dyspepsia = Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms.
Dysury = Difficulty in urination

E

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 brain; aka sleeping sickness
Enteric fever = Typhoid fever
Enterocolitis = Inflammation of the intestines
Enteritis = Inflations of the bowels
Epitaxis = Nose bleed
Erysipelas = Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions.
Extravasted blood = Rupture of a blood vessel.

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