PCGS - Diseases

Icterus	jaundice
Impetigo	contagious skin disease characterized by pustules; aka scrumpox
Inanition	physical condition resulting from lack of food
Infantile Paralysis	polio
Infection	affection or contamination of a person, organ, or wound with invading, multiplying, disease-producing germs
Inflammation	redness, swelling, pain, tenderness, heat, and disturbed function of an area of the body, especially as a result of injury
Intestinal Colic	abdominal pain due to improper diet
Jail Fever	typhus
Jaundice	condition caused by obstruction of bile and characterized by yellowness of the skin, fluids and tissues, and by constipation, loss of appetite, and weakness
Kidney Stone	gravel
King's Evil	tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands; aka scrofula
Kruchhusten	whooping cough
La Grippe	Influenza
Lagrippe	Influenza
Lockjaw	tetanus; infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in 8 days; aka trismus, tetanus
Long Sickness	tuberculosis
Lues	syphilis
Lues Venera	venereal disease
Lumbago	back pain
Lung Fever	pneumonia or tuberculosis
Lung Sickness	tuberculosis
Lying In	time of delivery of infant
Malignant Fever	typhus
Malignant Sore Throat	diphtheria
Mania	insanity
Marasmus	progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition
Membranous Croup	diphtheria
Meningitis	inflammations of brain or spinal cord; aka brain fever
Metritis	inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge
Miasma	poisonous vapors thought to infect the air
Milk fever	disease from drinking contaminated milk; fever which effects lactating women
Milk leg	Post partum thrombophlebitis
Milk Sick	poisoning resulting from the drinking of milk produced by a cow who had eaten a plant known as white snake root
Milk sickness	poisoning resulting from the drinking of milk produced by a cow who had eaten a plant known as white snake root
Morbus	Latin word for disease
Mormal	gangrene
Morphew	scurvy blisters on the body
Morsal	gangrene
Mortification	gangrene of necrotic tissue; infection
Myelitis	inflammation of the spine
Myocarditis	inflammation of heart muscles
Necrosis	mortification of bones or tissue
Nephritis	inflammation of kidneys
Nephrosis	kidney degeneration
Nepritis	inflammation of kidneys
Nervous Prostration	extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities
Neuralgia	discomfort - e.g. "Headache" was neuralgia in head
Neurasthenia	neurotic condition
Nostalgia	homesickness
Palsy	paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles
Paristhmitis	quinsy
Paroxysm	convulsion
Pemphigus	skin disease of watery blisters
performed	involuntary
Pericarditis	inflammation of heart
Peripneumonia	inflammation of lungs
Peritonitis	inflammation of abdominal area
Pertossis	breathing difficulties - sometimes convulsions; aka Whooping Cough, Chin Cough
Pest	Pestilence.
Pesthouse	special isolation hospital or quarantine house for victims of contagious epidemic diseases
Petechial Fever	fever characterized by skin spotting; see typhus
Peurperal Exhaustion	death due to child birth
Phlegmasia Alba Dolens	milk leg
Phrenitis	inflammation of the brain with acute fever delirium; inflammation of the diaphragm.
Phthiriasis	lice infestation
Phthisis	chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis; consumption
Plague	acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate; aka Bubonic Plague
Black Death	bubonic plague
Pleurisy	any pain in the chest area with each breath
Pneumonia	inflammation of the lungs with congestion or consolidation
Podagra	gout
Poliomyelitis	fibroid pthisis; aka Polio, Potter's asthma
Potter's Asthma	fibroid pthisis
Pott's Disease	tuberculosis of spine
Pox	any unknown disease that caused sores to appear on the body; usually referred to syphilis
Protein Disease	childhood kidney disease that causes the kidney to leak protein; allergic reaction to certain kinds of strep infections
Puerperal Exhaustion	death due to childbirth
Puerperal Fever	elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant; aka Childbed Fever
Puking Fever	milk sickness
Pus	yellow-white substance found in abscesses and sores
Putrid Fever	diphtheria
Putrid Sore Throat	acute ulceration of the tonsils
Pyrexia	dysentery
Quinsy	tonsillitis
Quincy	tonsillitis
Remitting Fever	malaria
Rheumatism	any disorder associated with pain in joints
Rickets	disease of skeletal system
Rose Cold	hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
Roseola	scarlet colored rash
Rotanny Fever	child's disease
Rubella	German measles
Rubeola	German measles
Saint Anthony's Fire	skin disease caused by strep infection which devastates the blood; aka Erysiphelas
Saint Vitus' Dance	epidemic characterized by contortions, convulsions, and dancing; aka Dancing Madness, Chorea
Sanguineous Crust	scab
Scarlatina	scarlet fever
Scarlet Fever	disease characterized by red rash
Scarlet Rash	roseola
Scarlet Thrush	roseola
Sciatica	rheumatism in the hips
Scirrhus	cancerous tumors
Scotomy	dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight
Screws	rheumatism
Scrivener's Palsy	writer's cramp
Scrofula	tuberculosis of neck lymph glands; see King's Evil
Scrumpox	skin disease, impetigo
Scurvy	weakness, spongy gums and hemorrhages under skin caused by lack of vitamin C
Septecemia	blood poisoning (from an infection)
Septic	local or generalized infection
Septicemia	blood poisoning
Shakes	delirium tremens
Shaking	chills, ague
Shingles	viral disease with skin blisters
Ship Fever	typhus
Ship's Fever	typhus
Simple Smiling Jesus	spinal meningitis
Siriasis	inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure
Sloes	milk sickness
Smallpox	contagious disease with fever and blisters
Softening of brain	result of stroke or hemorrhage 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	typhus; meningitis
Sprue	tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat
St. Anthony's fire	erysipelas; so named because affected skin areas are bright red in appearance
St. Vitas dance	ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements performed involuntarily
Stomatitis	inflammation of the mouth
Stranger's Fever	yellow fever
Strangery	rupture
Strangury	painful, interrupted urination caused by spasms of the bladder or urethra
Sudor anglicus	sweating sickness
Suffocation	stoppage of respiration
Summer Complaint	diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk
Sunstroke	uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environmental temperature
Suppuration	production of pus
Swamp Sickness	could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
Sweating Sickness	infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th Century; fever of a day's duration or coming on in the daytime - aka Day Fever
Tabes Mesenterica	tuberculosis of the mesenteric glands in children, resulting in digestive derangement and wasting of the body
Teething	process of the eruption of the teeth
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
Thyrotoxicosis	disease affecting the thyroid gland
Tick Fever	rocky mountain spotted fever
Toxemia of Pregnancy	eclampsia
Trench Mouth	painful ulcers found along gum line
Trismus Nascentium	form of tetanus seen only in infants, almost invariably in the first five days of life.
Trismus Neonatorum	form of tetanus seen only in infants, almost invariably in the first five days of life.
Tussis Convulsiva	whooping cough
Typhoid Fever	infectious, often-fatal, febrile disease characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; aka enteric fever.
Typhoid	infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness
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
Undulant Fever	intermittent fever caused by brucellosis; aka abortus fever
Variola	smallpox
Venesection	bleeding or blood letting; the opening of a vein for releasing Bad Humours; aka Phlebotomy
Viper's Dance	St. Vitus Dance
Virus	ultramicroscopic, metabolically inert infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts; in the early 1800s virus meant poison, venom, or contagion.
Water on Brain	enlarged head
White Swelling	tuberculosis of the bone
Whitlow	ulcerous swelling, a boil; aka Ancome
Whooping Cough	highly contagious disease of the respiratory system
Winter Fever	pneumonia
Womb Fever	infection of the uterus
Worm Fit	convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea
Yellow Fever	acute, often-fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by a virus
Yellowjacket	Yellow fever
Yellow Jacket	Yellow fever