Old Medical Terms

• Ablepsia - Blindness
• African Consumption - Tuberculosis
• Ansasrca - Generalized Dropsy
• Ague -Recurring fever & chills of Malaria
• Angina Pectoris - Paroxysms with severe pain in lower chest, feeling of suffocation
• Apoplexy - Stroke
• Bad Blood - Syphilis
• Bethlehemite - Mentally ill person
• Bilious fever - Fever, liver disorder the cause
• Black Death - typhus
• Black Lung - From breathing coal dust
• Black Plague - Bubonic Plague
• Black Pox - Smallpox
• Bloody Flux - Dysentery
• Brain Fever - Meningitis
• Bright's Disease - Kidney Inflammation
• Bronze John - Yellow Fever
• Camp Fever - Typhus
• Canine Madness - Hydrophobia (Rabies)
• Catarrh - (1) Inflammation of Mucous Membrane or (2) Cerebral Hemorrhage (Apoplexy)
• Cerebritis - Inflammation of the Brain
• Childbed Fever- Infection following Childbirth
• Chin Cough - Whooping cough
• Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with bleeding
• Chorea - St. Vitus Dance
• Commotion - Concussion
• Congestive Chill - Accumulation of the blood in the blood vessels
• Congestive Fever - Malaria
• Consuption - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
• Corruption - Infection
• Coryza - Cold
• Cramp Colic - Appendicitis
• Day Fever - sweating sickness
• Debilitas - Weakness of the Body
• Devonshire Colic - Exposure to lead
• Dropsy - Edema caused by kidney or heart disease
• Dysentery - Inflammation of intestinal mucous membrane
• Dyspepsia - Acid Indigestion
• Enteric Fever - Typhoid Fever
• Enteritis - Intestinal inflammation
• Extravasated blood - Ruptured blood vessel
• Falling Sickness - Epilepsy
• Fits - Convulsions
• Flus of Humour - Circulation
• Flux - Fluid discharge; diarrhea or hemorrhage
• French Disease - Syphilis
• French Pox - Venereal Disease
• Galloping Consumption - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
• Glandular Fever - Mononucleosis
• Great Pox - Syphilis
• Green Sickness - Anemia
• Grippe - Influenza
• Hallucination - Delirium

• Hematuria - Bloody urine
• Hemiplegy - Paralysis of the body
• Hip Gout - Osteomyelitis
• Hydrophobia - Rabies
• Hydrothroax - Dropsy in the chest
• Ictus Solis - Sunstroke
• Impedigo - Contagious skin disease
• Infantile Paralysis - Polio
• Jail Fever - Typhus
• Jaundice - (Yellow skin) condition caused by intestinal blockage
• King's Evil - Scrofula; Tuberculosis characterized by a swelling of the neck glands
• La Grippe - Flu
• Lockjaw - Tetanus affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw
• Lues Venera - Venereal Disease
• Lumbago - Pain in lower back, hip, or thigh: Sciatica
• Lung fever - Pneumonia
• Lung Sickness - Tuberculosis
• Mania - Insanity
• Mirasmus - Emaciation
• Milk Leg - Inflammation of leg
• Morbus - Disease
• Morfew - Scurvy Blisters on the body
• Mormal - Gangrene
• Mortification - Infection
• Necrosis - Motification of bones or tissue
• Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration
• Nostalgia - Homesickness
• Painter's Colic - Exposure to lead
• Paroxysm - Convulsion
• Petechial Fever - Fever with skin spotting
• Phthisis - Pulmonary Consumption
• Pleurisy - Inflammation of Lung
• Pox - Syphilis
• Puerperal Exhaustion - Death due to child birth
• Puerperal Fever - Infection following childbirth
• Putrid Fever - Diphtheria
• Quinsey - Tonsillitis
• Remitting Fever - Malaria
• Sanguinous Crust - Scab
• Scirrhus - Cancerous Tumors
• Scorbutus - Lack of Vitamin C
• Screws - Rheumatism
• Scrofula - (see King's Evil)
• Scrumpox - Impetigo
• Senile Gangrene - Hardening of the Arteries
• Ship's Fever - Typhus
• Sloes - Milk Sickness
• Sore Throat Distemper - Quinsey
• St. Anthony's Fire - Skin Infection
• St. Vitus' Dance - Nervous Twitches
• Tetanus - Lockjaw
• Thrombosis - Blood clot in a blood vessel
• Thrush - Childhood disease with spots on the mouth, lips and throat
• Tick Fever - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
• Trench mouth - Ulcers along the gumline from poor nutrition or hygiene
• Tussis Convulsiva - Whooping Cough
• Typhus - Infectious Fever
• Ulcus - Ulcer
• Variola - Smallpox
• Venesection - Bleeding
• Water on the Brain - Hydrocephalus, Elarged head or maybe Downs Syndrome
• White Swelling - Tuberculosis of the Bone
• Whitlow - Boil
• Winter Fever - Pneumonia
• Womb Fever - Infection of the Uterus
• Yellow Jacket - Yellow Fever
• Yellow Landers - Jaundice