The Descendants Of Thomas Sims Graves
of Virginia, Fayette, and Nelson County Kentucky
Relics
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
(Last modified: Feb 3rd 2014, 12:53)
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