Diseases Name - Symtoms and Description |
Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke |
Barrel Fever - Alchoholism |
Black Death - Typhus |
Brain Fever - Meningitis |
Bright's Disease - Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys |
Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child |
Chin Cough - Whooping Cough |
Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing |
Cholera morbus - Characterized by nausea, vomiting,
abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis. |
Congestive chills/ fever - Malaria |
Consumption - Tuberculosis |
Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age |
Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease |
Dropsy of the Brain - Encephalitis |
Dysentery - Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood |
Encephalitis - Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness |
Falling sickness - Epilepsy |
Flux - An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea |
French Disease - Syphilis |
Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines |
Lagrippe - Influenza |
Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the
muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days |
Lues Venera - Venereal disease |
Lung fever - Pneumonia |
Lung sickness - Tuberculosis |
Meningitis - Inflation of brain or spinal cord |
Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration |
Nepritis - Inflammation of kidneys |
Quinsy - Abscess behind tonsils |
Sanguinous Crust - Scab |
Scorbutus - Lack of Vitamin C |
Senile Gangrene - Hardening of the Arteries |
Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters |
St. Anthonys Fire - Skin Infection |
Summer complaint - Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk |
Tetanus - Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness |
Trench mouth - apathos ulcers or a virus disease |
Thrush - Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat |
Tuberculosis - Bacterial infection that primarily attacks
the lungs, but which may also affect the kidneys, bones, lymph nodes, and brain. Symptoms of TB include coughing, chest pain, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, weight loss, fever, chills, and fatigue. |
Typhus - Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache, and dizziness |
Whitlow - Boil |
Winter fever - Pneumonia |
Yellow Jacket - Yellow Fever |