Ablepsia - Blindness

Ague - Malarial fever

American Plague - Yellow Fever

African Consumption - Tuberculosis

Anasarca - Generalized Dropsy

Ague - recurring fever & chills of Malaria

Angina Pectoris - Paroxysms with severe pain in lower chest, feeling of suffocation

Aphtha - thrush (infant disease)

Apoplexy - paralysis due to stroke

Asphycsia - Cyanotic lack of oxygen

Atrophy - wasting away

Bad blood - Syphlis

Bethlehemite - Mentally ill person

Bilious fever - Fever, liver disorder the cause

Black Death- typhus

Black Fever - acute infection with high temp and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate.

Black Plague - bubonic plague

Black Lung - From breathing coal dust

Black Pox - Black Smallpox

Black Vomit - Vomiting old dark black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever

Blackwater Fever - Dark urine associated with high temp

Bladder in throat - Diptheria

Blood poisioning - bacterial infection; septicemia

Bloody Flux - Dysentery; bloody stools

Bloody sweat - sweating sickness

Bone shave - Sciatica

Brain Fever - Sun stroke; meningitis

Breakbone - Dengue fever

Bright's Disease - Kidney Inflammation

Bronze John - Yellow Fever

Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling

Cachexy - malnutrition

Cacogastric - Upset stomache

Cacospysy - Irregular pulse

Caducceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy

Camp Fever -Typhus

Canine Madness - Hydrophobia (Rabies)

Canker - ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex

Catalepsy - Seizures / trances

Catarrh - (1) Inflammation of Mucous Membrane or

(2) Cerebral Hemorrhage (Apoplexy)

Cerebritis -Inflammation of the Brain

Chilblain - Swellin gof extremities caused by exposure to the cold

Childbed Fever - Infection following Childbirth

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, eleveted temp. etc

Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder

Cholethiasis - gall sto9nes

Chorea - St. Vitus Dance

Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills

Colic - An abdominal pain and cramping

Commotion - Concussion

Congestive Chill - Accumulation of the blood in the blood vessels

Congestive Fever - Malaria

Consumption -Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Corruption - Infection

Coryza - Cold

Costiveness - Constipation

Cramp colic - Appendicitis

Crop sickness - Overextended stomache

Croup - Laryngitis, diptheria or strep throat

Cyanonsis - Dark skin from lack of oxygen in the blood

Cynanche - Diseases of the throat

Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder

Day Fever - Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness

Debilitas - Weakness of the Body

Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age

Delirium tremens - hallucinations due to alcholism

Dengue - Infectious fever endemic to East Africa

Dentition - cutting teeth

Deplumation - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss

Devonshire Colic - Exposure to lead

Diary fever - a fever that lasts one day

Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat

Distemper - Usually an animal disease with malaise; discharge from nose and throat, anorexia

Dock fever - Yellow fever

Dropsy - Edema caused by kidney or heart disease

Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis

Dry Bellyache - Lead poisioning

Dyscrasy - an abnormal body condition

Dysentery - Inflammation of intestinal mucous membrane

Dysorexy - Reduced appetite

Dyspepsia - Acid Indigestion and heartburn.  Heart attack symptoms

Dysury - Difficulty in urination

Eclampsy - Systoms 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 dropsey

Eel things - Erysipelas

Elephantiasis - a form of leprosy

Encephalitis - Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness

Enteric Fever - Typhoid Fever

Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines.

Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels.

Epitaxis - Nose bleed

Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease, due to Strptocci with vesicular and bulbous lesions

Extravasated blood - Ruptured blood vessel

Falling Sickness - Epilepsy

Fits - Convulsions

Flux - An excessive flow of discharge of fluid like hemorrage or diarrhea

Flux of Humour -Circulation

French Disease - Syphilis

French Pox - Venereal Disease

Galloping Consumption - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Gathering - collection of pus

Glandular fever - Mononucleosis

Great pox - Syphilis

Green Sickness - Anemia

Grippe - Influenza

Grocer's itch - Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour 

Hallucination - Delirium

Heart sickness - Condition caused by the loss of salt from body

Heat stroke - Body temp elevates because of surroundiong environment temp and body does not perspire to reduce temp.  Coma or death may occur.

Hectical Complaint - Recurrent fever

Hematemesis - Vomiting blood

Hermaturia - Bloody urine

Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body

Hip Gout - Osteomyelitis

Horros - Delirium tremens

Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain

Hydropercardium - heart dropsey

Hydrophobia - rabies

Hydrothroax - dropsey in chest

Hypertrophic - enlargement of organ, like the heart

Ictus Solis - Sunstroke

Impetigo - Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules

Inanition - Physical condition resulting from lack of food

Infantile paralysis - Polio

Intestinal Colic - Adominal pain due to improper diet.

Jail Fever - Typhus

Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines

King's Evil - Scrofula; Swelling of the neck glands

Kruchhusten - Whooping cough

La Grippe - Flu

Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw.  Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days.

Lues Venera - Venereal Disease

Lumbago - Pain in lower back, hip, or thigh: Sciatica

Lung fever - Pneumonia

Lung Sickness - Tuberculosis

Lying in - Time of delivery of infant

Malignant sore throat - Diptheria

Mania - Insanity

Marasmus - Emaciation, progresive wasting away of the body

Membranous Croup - Diptheria

Meningitis - Inflammation of the brain or spinal cord

Metristis - Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge

Miasma - Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air

Milk Leg - inflammation of leg

Milk sickness - Disease from milk cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds

Morbus - Disease

Mormal - Gangrene

Morphew - Scurvy blisters on the body

Mortification - Infection, gangrene of necrotic tissue 

Myelitis - Inflammation of the spine

Myocarditis - Inflammation of heart muscles

Necrosis - Mortification of bones or tissue

Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration

Nepritis - Inflammation of heart muscles

Nervous Prostration - Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities

Neuralgia - Described as discomfort, such as, "headache" was neuralgia in head

Nostalgia - Homesickness

Painter's Colic -Exposure to lead

Palsy - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles

Paroxysm - Convulsions

Pemphigus - skin disease of watery blisters

Percarditis - Inflammation of heart

Peripnemonia - Imflammation of lungs

Peritonotis - Inflammation of the abdominal area

Petechial Fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting

Peurperal exhaustion - Death due to child birth

Phthiriasis - Lice infestation

Phthisis - Pulmonary Consumption, chronic wsting away or a name or tubercfulious

Plague - An acute febrile highly infectious disease with high fatality rate

Pleurisy - Inflammation of Lung

Podagra - Gout

Poliomyelitis - Polio Potter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis

Pott's Disease - tuberculosis of spine

Pox - Syphilis

Puerperal exhaustion - death due to child birth

Puerperal Fever - Infection following childbirth

Puking fever - Milk sickness

Putrid Fever- Diphtheria

Quinsey - Tonsillitis

Remitting Fever - Malaria

Rheumatism - any disorder associated with pain in joints

Rickets - disease of the skeletal system

Rose Cold - Hay fever or nasal systoms of an allergy

Rubeola - German measles

Sanguineous Crust - Scab

Scarlatina - Scarlet fever

Scarlet Fever - a disease characterized by red rash

Scarlet Rash - Roseola

Sciatica - Rheumatism in the hips

Scirrhus - Cancerous tumors

Scorbutus - Lack of Vitamin C

Scotomy - Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight

Screws - Rheumatism

Scrivener's palsy - Writer's cramp

Scrofula - see King's Evil

Scrumpox - Skin disease, impetigo

Senile Gangrene - Hardening of the Arteries

Scurvy - Lack of vitamin C

Septicemia - Blood poisioning

Shakes - Delirium tremens

Shaking - Chils, ague

Shingles - Biral diesease with skin blisters

Ship's Fever -Typhus

Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure

Sloes - Milk sickness

Small Pox - Contagious diesease with fever and blisters

Softening of the brain - Result of a stroke or hemorrhge in the braon, with an end result of the tissue softening in that area

Sore Throat Distemper - Quinsey  or diptheria

Spanish Influenza - Epdemic influenza

Spasms - sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles, like a convulsion

Spinal bifidia - Deformity of spine

Spotted fever - Either typhus or meningitis

Sprue - Tropical diesease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat

St. Anthony's Fire - also erysipelas, but named so because of affected skin areas are bright red in appearance - Skin Infection

St. Vitus' Dance - Nervous Twitches

Stomatitis - Inflammationof the mouth

Strangers fever - Yellow fever

Strangery - Rupture

Sudor anglilcus - Sweating sickness

Summer complaint - Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk

Sunstroke - Uncontrolled elevation of body temp due to environmental heat.  Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause

Swamp Sickness - Could be malaria, thyphoid or encephalitis

Sweating Sickness - Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in the 15th century

Tetanus - Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness

Thrombosis - Blood clot inside blood vesssel

Thrush - Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, liips and throat

Tick Fever - Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Toxemia of pregnancy - Eclampsia

Trench Mouth - Painful ulcers found along the gum line, caused by poor nutrition and poor hygeine

Tussis convulsia - Whooping cough

Ulcus - Ulcer

Variola - Small pox

Venesection - Bleeding

Viper's Dance - St. Vitus Dance

Water on the brain - Enlarged head

White swelling - Tuberculosis of the bone

Whitlow - Boil

Winter Fever - Pneumonia

Womb fever - Infection of the uterus

Worm fit - Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temps or diarrhea

Yellow Jacket - Yellow Fever