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Ablepsy
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Blindness
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Ague
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Malarial Fever
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American
plague
|
Yellow fever
|
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Anasarca
|
Generalized massive edema
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Aphonia
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Laryngitis
|
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Aphtha
|
The infant disease "thrush"
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Apoplexy
|
Paralysis due to stroke
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Asphyxia
|
Cyanotic and lack of oxygen
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Atrophy
|
Wasting away or diminishing in size.
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Bad Blood
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Syphilis
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Bilious
fever
|
Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated
temperature and bile emesis
|
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Biliousness
|
Jaundice associated with liver disease
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Black
plague or death
|
Bubonic plague
|
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Black
fever
|
Acute infection with high temperature and
dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate
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Black pox
|
Black Small pox
|
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Black
vomit
|
Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or
yellow fever
|
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Blackwater
fever
|
Dark urine associated with high temperature
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Bladder
in throat
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Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates)
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Blood
poisoning
|
Bacterial infection; septicemia
|
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Bloody
flux
|
Bloody stools
|
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Bloody
sweat
|
Sweating sickness
|
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Bone
shave
|
Sciatica
|
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Brain
fever
|
Meningitis
|
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Breakbone
|
Dengue fever
|
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Bright's
disease
|
Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
|
|
Bronze
John
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Yellow fever
|
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Bule
|
Boil, tumor or swelling
|
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Cachexia
|
Malnutrition
|
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Cacogastric
|
Upset stomach
|
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Cacospysy
|
Irregular pulse
|
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Caduceus
|
Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy
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Camp
fever aka Camp diarrhea
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Typhus
|
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Canine
madness
|
Rabies, hydrophobia
|
|
Canker
|
Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes
simplex
|
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Catalepsy
|
Seizures / trances
|
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Catarrhal
|
Cattarh is a cold (the al at the end makes
it an adjective): Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy
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Cerebritis
|
Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
|
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Chilblain
|
Swelling of extremities caused by exposure
to cold
|
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Childbed
fever
|
Infection following birth of a child
|
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Chin
cough
|
Whooping cough
|
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Chlorosis
|
Iron deficiency anemia
|
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Cholera
|
Acute severe contagious diarrhea with
intestinal lining sloughing
|
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Cholera
morbus
|
Characterized by nausea, vomiting,
abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis
|
|
Cholecystitis
|
Inflammation of the gall bladder
|
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Cholelithiasis
|
Gall stones
|
|
Chorea
|
Disease characterized by convulsions,
contortions and dancing
|
|
Cold
plague
|
Ague which is characterized by chills
|
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Colic
|
An abdominal pain and cramping
|
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Congestive
chills
|
Malaria
|
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Consumption
|
Tuberculosis
|
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Congestion
|
Any collection of fluid in an organ, like
the lungs
|
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Congestive
chills
|
Malaria with diarrhea
|
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Congestive
fever
|
Malaria
|
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Corruption
|
Infection
|
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Coryza
|
A cold
|
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Costiveness
|
Constipation
|
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Cramp
colic
|
Appendicitis
|
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Crop
sickness
|
Overextended stomach
|
|
Croup
|
Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat
|
|
Cyanosis
|
Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood
|
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Cynanche
|
Diseases of throat
|
|
Cystitis
|
Inflammation of the bladder
|
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Day fever
|
Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness
|
|
Debility
|
Lack of movement or staying in bed
|
|
Decrepitude
|
Feebleness due to old age
|
|
Delirium
tremens
|
Hallucinations due to alcoholism
|
|
Dengue
|
Infectious fever endemic to East Africa
|
|
Dentition
|
Cutting of teeth
|
|
Deplumation
|
Is falling of eyelashes as result of
disease (not the disease itself). Tumor of the eyelids which causes
hair loss
|
|
Diary
fever
|
A fever that lasts one day
|
|
Diphtheria
|
Contagious disease of the throat
|
|
Distemper
|
Usually animal disease with malaise,
discharge from nose and throat, anorexia
|
|
Dock
fever
|
Yellow fever
|
|
Dropsy
|
Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or
heart disease
|
|
Dropsy
of the Brain
|
Encephalitis
|
|
Dry
Bellyache
|
Lead poisoning
|
|
Dyscrasia
|
An 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
|
|
Eclampsia
|
Symptoms 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 dropsy
|
|
Eel thing
|
Erysipelas
|
|
Elephantiasis
|
A form of leprosy
|
|
Encephalitis
aka sleeping sickness
|
Swelling of brain
|
|
Enteric
fever
|
Typhoid fever
|
|
Enterocolitis
|
Inflammation of the intestines
|
|
Enteritis
|
Inflammations of the bowels
|
|
Epistaxis
|
Nose bleed
|
|
Erysipelas
|
Contagious skin disease, due to
Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions
|
|
Extravasted
blood
|
Rupture of a blood vessel
|
|
Falling
sickness
|
Epilepsy
|
|
Fatty
Liver
|
Cirrhosis of liver
|
|
Fits
|
Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity
|
|
Flux
|
An excessive flow or discharge of fluid
like hemorrhage or diarrhea
|
|
Flux of
humour
|
Circulation
|
|
French
pox
|
Syphilis
|
|
Gathering
|
A collection of pus
|
|
Glandular
fever
|
Mononucleosis
|
|
Great pox
|
Syphilis
|
|
Green
fever / Green sickness
|
Anemia
|
|
Grippe/grip
|
Influenza like symptoms
|
|
Grocer's
itch
|
Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or
flour
|
|
Heart
sickness
|
Condition caused by loss of salt from body
|
|
Heat
stroke
|
Body temperature elevates because of
surrounding environment temperature and body does not perspire to
reduce temperature. Coma and death result if not reversed
|
|
Hectical
complaint
|
Recurrent fever
|
|
Hematemesis
|
Vomiting blood
|
|
Hematuria
|
Bloody urine
|
|
Hemiplegy
|
Paralysis of one side of body
|
|
Hip gout
|
Osteomylitis
|
|
Horrors
|
Delirium tremens
|
|
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
|
|
Impetigo
|
Contagious skin disease characterized by
pustules
|
|
Inanition
|
Physical condition resulting from lack of
food
|
|
Infantile
paralysis
|
Polio
|
|
Intestinal
colic
|
Abdominal pain due to improper diet
|
|
Jail
fever
|
Typhus
|
|
Jaundice
|
Condition caused by blockage of intestines
|
|
King's
evil
|
"King's evil" is swelling of joints and
lymph glands or scrofula, not necessarily from TB (the touch of a king
was supposed to cure it)
|
|
Kruchhusten
|
Whooping cough
|
|
Lagrippe
|
Influenza
|
|
Lockjaw
|
Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the
muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days
|
|
Lues
disease
|
Syphilis
|
|
Lues
venera
|
Venereal disease
|
|
Lumbago
|
Back pain
|
|
Lung
fever
|
Pneumonia or tuberculosis
|
|
Lung
sickness
|
Tuberculosis
|
|
Lying in
|
Time of delivery of infant
|
|
Malignant
sore throat
|
Diphtheria
|
|
Mania
|
Insanity
|
|
Marasmus
|
Progressive wasting away of body, like
malnutrition
|
|
Membranous
Croup
|
Diphtheria
|
|
Meningitis
|
Inflammations of brain or spinal cord
|
|
Metritis
|
Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal
discharge
|
|
Miasma
|
Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air
|
|
Milk
fever
|
Disease from drinking contaminated milk,
like undulant fever or brucellosis
|
|
Milk leg
|
Post partum thrombophlebitis
|
|
Milk
sickness
|
Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten
poisonous Weeds
|
|
Mormal
|
Gangrene
|
|
Morphew
|
Scurvy blisters on the body
|
|
Mortification
|
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 kidneys
|
|
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
|
|
Palsy
|
Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of
controlled muscles. It was listed as "Cause of death"
|
|
Paroxysm
|
Convulsion
|
|
Pemphigus
|
Skin disease of watery blisters
|
|
Pericarditis
|
Inflammation of heart
|
|
Peripneumonia
|
Inflammation of lungs
|
|
Peritonitis
|
Inflammation of abdominal area
|
|
Petechial
Fever -
|
Fever characterized by skin spotting
|
|
Phthiriasis
|
Lice infestation
|
|
Phthisis
|
Chronic wasting away or a name for
tuberculosis
|
|
Plague
|
An acute febrile highly infectious disease
with a high fatality rate
|
|
Pleurisy
|
Any pain in the chest area with each breath
|
|
Podagra
|
Gout
|
|
Poliomyelitis
|
Polio, Potter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis
|
|
Pott's
disease
|
Tuberculosis of spine
|
|
Puerperal
exhaustion
|
Death due to childbirth
|
|
Puerperal
fever
|
Elevated temperature after giving birth to
an infant
|
|
Puking
fever
|
Milk sickness
|
|
Putrid
fever
|
Diphtheria
|
|
Quinsy
|
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
|
|
Rotanny
fever
|
Child's disease) ???
|
|
Roseola
|
Scarlet colored rash
|
|
Rubella
|
German measles - Rubeola the regular 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
|
|
Scotomy
|
Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight
|
|
Scrivener's
palsy
|
Writer's cramp
|
|
Screws
|
Rheumatism
|
|
Scrofula
|
Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands.
Progresses slowly with abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's
disease
|
|
Scrumpox
|
Skin disease, impetigo
|
|
Scurvy
|
Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness,
spongy gums and hemorrhages under skin
|
|
Septicemia
|
Blood poisoning
|
|
Shakes
|
Delirium tremens
|
|
Shaking
|
Chills, ague
|
|
Shingles
|
Viral disease with skin blisters
|
|
Ship
fever
|
Typhus
|
|
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
|
Either typhus or meningitis
|
|
Sprue
|
Tropical disease 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
|
|
St.
Vitas dance
|
Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex
jerking movements performed involuntarily
|
|
Stomatitis
|
Inflammation of the mouth
|
|
Stranger's
fever
|
Yellow fever
|
|
Strangury
|
Painful, interrupted urination caused by
spasms of the bladder or urethra
|
|
Sudor
anglicus -
|
Sweating sickness
|
|
Summer
complaint
|
Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by
spoiled milk
|
|
Sunstroke
|
Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature
due to environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing
cause
|
|
Swamp
sickness
|
Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
|
|
Sweating
sickness
|
Infectious and fatal disease common to UK
in 15th Century
|
|
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
|
|
Tick
fever
|
Rocky mountain spotted fever
|
|
Toxemia
of pregnancy
|
Eclampsia
|
|
Trench
mouth
|
Painful ulcers found along gum line. Caused
by poor nutrition and poor hygiene
|
|
Tussis
convulsiva
|
Whooping cough
|
|
Typhus
|
Infectious fever characterized high fever,
headache, and Dizziness
|
|
Variola
|
Smallpox
|
|
Venesection
|
Bleeding
|
|
Viper's
dance
|
St. Vitus Dance
|
|
Water on
brain
|
Enlarged head
|
|
White
swelling
|
Tuberculosis of the bone
|
|
Winter
fever
|
Pneumonia
|
|
Womb
fever
|
Infection of the uterus
|
|
Worm fit
|
Convulsions associated with teething,
worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea
|
|
Yellowjacket
|
Yellow fever
|