Diseases
A - H
| Abasia | inability to walk or stand, caused by hysteria |
| Ablepsia | blindness |
| Ablepsy | blindness |
| Abscess | localized collection of pus buried in tissues, organs, or confined spaces of the body, often accompanied by swelling and inflammation and frequently caused by bacteria |
| Accouchment | childbirth, the period after childbirth |
| Acute | (adj.) disease of sudden onset, severe, not chronic |
| Acute Mania | severe insanity |
| Addison's Disease | destructive disease marked by weakness, loss of weight, low blood pressure, gastrointestinal disturbances, and brownish pigmentation of the skin and mucous membranes |
| Aegrotantem | sickness, illness. |
| Aegrotat | is sick from |
| Ague | used to define the recurring fever & chills of malarial infection |
| Ague Cake | hard tumor or swelling on the left side of the abdomen, lower than the false rib, resulting from enlargement of the spleen, resulting from the action of malaria on the system |
| American Plague | Yellow fever |
| Anasarca | generalized massive edema |
| Anchylosis | abnormal stiffening and immobility of a joint by fusion of the bones |
| Ankylosis | abnormal stiffening and immobility of a joint by fusion of the bones |
| Ancome | Ulcerous swelling, also called Whitlow |
| Angina | pain in chest brought on by exertion; intense constricting pain especially of the throat, can lead to suffocation; aka quinsy |
| Aphonia | laryngitis |
| Aphtha | infant disease "thrush" |
| Aphthous Stomatitis | see "canker" |
| Apoplexy | paralysis due to stroke |
| Aqlotition | inability to swallow, frequently found on death certificates |
| Ascites | see "dropsy" |
| Asphycsia | cyanotic; lack of oxygen |
| Aphicsia | cyanotic; lack of oxygen |
| Asphyxia | cyanotic; lack of oxygen |
| Asthenia | see "debility" |
| Atrophy | wasting away or diminishing in size |
| Bad Blood | Syphilis |
| Barrel Fever | sickness produced by immoderate drinking |
| Biliouness | jaundice or other symptoms associated with liver disease |
| Bilious Fever | typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis |
| Black Death | typhus; Bubonic Plague |
| Black Fever | acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions - high mortality rate |
| Black Jaundice | caused by a micro-organism (bacterial infection of the liver) - not a virus, common in northeast England near mines, farms and sewage, carried by rats and secreted in their urine; aka Wiel's Disease |
| Wiel's Disease | caused by a micro-organism (bacterial infection of the liver) - not a virus, common in northeast England near mines, farms and sewage, carried by rats and secreted in their urine; aka Wiel's Disease |
| Black Lung | disease from breathing coal dust, typical of coal miners' death certificates |
| Black Plague | bubonic plague |
| 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 |
| Boil | abscess of skin or painful inflammation of the skin or a hair follicle usually caused by a staphylococcal infection; aka furuncle. |
| Bone Shave | sciatica |
| Brain Fever | meningitis |
| Breakbone | dengue fever |
| Bright's Disease | catch-all for kidney diseases/disorders; aka glomerulonephritis |
| Bronchial asthma | disorder of breathing, characterized by spasm of the bronchial tubes of the lungs, wheezing, and difficulty in breathing air outward--often accompanied by coughing and a feeling of tightness in the chest |
| Bronze John | yellow fever |
| Brucellosis | bacterial disease, especially of cattle, causing undulant fever in humans |
| Bule | boil, tumor or swelling |
| Cachexia | malnutrition |
| Cacogastric | upset stomach |
| Cacospysy | irregular pulse |
| Caduceus | subject to falling sickness or epilepsy |
| Camp Fever | typhus; aka Camp diarrhea |
| Cancer | malignant and invasive growth or tumor, tending to recur after excision and to spread to other sites; aka malignant growth, carcinoma. |
| Cancrum otis | severe eroding ulcer of the cheek and lip; aka: canker, water canker, noma, gangrenous stomatitis, gangrenous ulceration of the mouth |
| Canine Madness | rabies, hydrophobia |
| Canker | ulceration of mouth or lips; herpes simplex; aka aphthous stomatitis, cancrum otis |
| Canker Rash | scarlet fever; aka scarlatina |
| Carditis | inflammation of the heart wall |
| Catalepsy | condition which causes seizures, trances or unconsciousness |
| Catarrh | inflammation of a mucous membrane with a free discharge; aka cold, coryza |
| Catarrh, Bronchial | bronchitis |
| Catarrh, Suffocative | croup |
| Catarrh, Urethral | gleet |
| Catarrh, Vaginal | leukorrhea |
| Catarrh, Epidemic | influenza |
| Catarrhal | nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy |
| Cerebritis | inflammation of cerebrum; lead poisoning |
| Chilblain | swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold |
| Childbed Fever | infection following birth of a child |
| Childbed | childbirth. |
| Childbirth | cause given for many female deaths although infection and lack of medical skill were often the actual causes of death |
| Chin Cough | whooping cough |
| Chlorosis | iron deficiency anemia; condition of pale or greenish skin, weakness, & dyspepsia; aka leukemia, green sickness |
| Cholecystitis | inflammation of the gall bladder |
| Cholelithiasis | gall stones |
| Cholera | acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing |
| Cholera Infantum | common, non-contagious diarrhea of young children, occurring in summer or autumn; aka summer complaint, weaning brash, water gripes, choleric fever of children, cholera morbus |
| Cholera Morbus | nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc; aka appendicitis |
| Cholera | acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing |
| Chorea | any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky movements that appear to be well coordinated but are performed involuntarily, chiefly of the face and extremities; convulsions, contortions and dancing. aka Saint Vitus' dance |
| Chronic | persisting over a long period of time as opposed to acute or sudden |
| Cold Plague | ague which is characterized by chills |
| Colic | abdominal pain and cramping |
| Commotion | concussion |
| Confinement | the conclusion of pregnancy; labor and childbirth. |
| Congestion | any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs |
| Congestive Chills | malaria with diarrhea |
| Congestive Fever | malaria |
| Consumption | tuberculosis; a wasting away of the body; aka marasmus (in the mid 19th century), phthisis |
| Convulsions | severe contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions of the extremities, trunk, and head |
| Corruption | infection |
| Coryza | a cold; see catarrh |
| Costiveness | constipation |
| Cramp Colic | appendicitis |
| Cretinism | congenital hypothyroidism |
| Crop Sickness | overextended stomach |
| Croup | hoarse, barking cough; aka laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat; aka roup, hives, choak, stuffing, rising of the lights |
| Cyanosis | dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood |
| Cynanche | diseases of throat |
| Cystitis | inflammation of the bladder |
| Dancing Madness | epidemic characterized by contortions, convulsions, and dancing; aka Saint Vitus' Dance; chorea |
| Day fever | fever lasting one day; sweating sickness |
| Death From "Teething" | tooth infections with inflammation and cellulitis |
| Debility | abnormal bodily weakness or feebleness; decay of strength; lack of movement or staying in bed; aka asthenia |
| Decrepitude | feebleness due to old age |
| Delirium Tremens | hallucinations due to alcoholism |
| Dengue | infectious fever endemic to East Africa |
| Dentition | cutting of teeth |
| Deplumation | falling of eyelashes as result of disease; tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss |
| Diary Fever | fever that lasts one day |
| Diphtheria | contagious disease of the throat; aka membranous croup |
| Distemper | usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia |
| Dock Fever | yellow fever |
| Domestic Illness | polite way of saying mental breakdown, depression, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, or the after effects of a stroke or any illness that kept a person housebound and probably in need of nursing support |
| Dropsy | edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease; aka anasarca |
| Dropsy, Brain | hydrocephalus; encephalitis |
| Dropsy, Abdominal | ascites |
| Dropsy, Chest | hydrothorax |
| Dropsy, Cardiac | symptom of disease of the heart, congestive heart failure |
| Dry Bellyache | lead poisoning |
| Dyscrasia | abnormal body condition |
| Dyscrasy | abnormal body condition |
| Dysentery | inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood |
| Dysorexy | Reduced appetite |
| Dyspepsia | indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms |
| Dysuria | difficulty in urination |
| Dysury | difficulty in urination |
| Eclampsia | symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor; form of toxemia accompanying pregnancy; aka dropsy |
| Eclampsy | symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor; form of toxemia accompanying pregnancy; aka dropsy |
| Ecstasy | form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason |
| Edema | nephrosis; swelling of tissues; aka dropsy |
| Edema, Lungs | congestive heart failure; aka dropsy |
| Eel Thing | erysipelas |
| Effluvia | exhalations or emanations, applied especially to those of noxious character; aka vapors |
| Effluvia, Contagious | rubeolar (measles) |
| Effluvia, Marsh | miasmata |
| Elephantiasis | gross enlargement of the body, especially the limbs; form of leprosy |
| Emphysema, Pulmonary | chronic, irreversible disease of the lungs |
| Encephalitis | swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness |
| Enteric Fever | typhoid fever |
| Enteritis | inflammations of the bowels |
| Enterocolitis | inflammation of the intestines |
| Epilepsy | disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petittnal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal); aka falling sickness, fits. |
| Epistaxis | nose bleed |
| Erysipelas | contagious skin disease with vesicular and bulbous lesions |
| Erysiphelas | skin disease caused by strep infection, devastates the blood; aka Saint Anthony's Fire |
| Euphoria | inappropriate affect - as in laughing when you shouldn't; aka shell shock, battle fatigue, post engagement stress syndrome) |
| Excrescence | unnatural or disfiguring outgrowth of the skin |
| Extravasated Blood | rupture of a blood vessel |
| Falling Sickness | epilepsy |
| Fatty Liver | cirrhosis of liver |
| Fits | sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity |
| Flux | excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea |
| Flux of Humour | circulation |
| French Pox | venereal disease; syphilis |
| Furuncle | boil |
| Galloping Consumption | pulmonary tuberculosis |
| Gangrene | death and decay of tissue in a part of the body, usually a limb, due to injury, disease, or failure of blood supply; aka mortification |
| Gathering | collection of pus |
| Glandular Fever | mononucleosis |
| Gleet | catarrh |
| Glomerulonephritis | childhood kidney disease that causes the kidney to leak protein; allergic reaction to certain kinds of strep infections; aka Protein Disease. |
| Goiter | enlarged thyroid gland which affects body's metabolism |
| Goitre | enlarged thyroid gland which affects body's metabolism |
| Gout | any inflammation caused by the formation of crystals of oxalic acid when it accumulates in the body |
| Gravel | multiple small calculi (stones or concretions of mineral salts) formed in the kidneys, passed along the ureters to the bladder, and expelled with the urine; aka kidney stone. |
| Grave's Disease | thryotoxicosis; disorder of the thyroid gland |
| Great Pox | syphilis |
| Green fever | anemia; aka chlorosis |
| Green sickness | anemia; aka chlorosis |
| Grippe | influenza like symptoms |
| Grip | influenza like symptoms |
| Grocer's Itch | skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour |
| Hallucination | delirium |
| Heart Sickness | condition caused by loss of salt from body |
| Heat Stroke | increased body temperature as a result of surrounding environmental temperature; coma and death result if not reversed |
| Hectic Fever | daily recurring fever with profound sweating, chills, and flushed appearance-- often associated with pulmonary tuberculosis or septic poisoning |
| Hectical Complaint | recurrent fever |
| Hematemesis | vomiting blood |
| Hemathria | discharge of bloody urine |
| Hematuria | bloody urine |
| Hemiphlegy | palsy or paralysis that affects one side of the body. |
| Hemiplegy | paralysis of one side of body |
| Hip Gout | osteomylitis |
| Hives | eruption of weals on the skin with severe itching; aka cynanche trachealis |
| Horrors | delirium tremens |
| Hospital Fever | typhus |
| Humour | blood |
| Hydrocephalus | enlarged head; water on the brain |
| Hydropericardium | heart dropsy |
| Hydrophobia | rabies |
| Hydrothorax | dropsy in chest |
| Hypertrophic | enlargement of any structure, like a scar, muscle, or organ |
| Hysteria | wild uncontrollable emotion, excitement, functional disturbance of the nervous system. |
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