Mark, I think we have talked before, but do you know who this Melvin Brown was? I have many Melvins in my family also. What part of Cayuga co. were they from? My 3rd great grandfather lived in Auburn at the time of his death. He was a newspaper publisher there. I have yet to find out who his siblings were but I am sure one was a Melvin. There also was a Josiah but I can't place him in the family as well. My family of Browns scattered from Stillwater, Saratoga Co. to Milo, Yates Co; Camereron, Steuben Co. and Auburn, Cayuga Co. Sonja In a message dated 2/17/2009 6:09:16 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, aaward311@verizon.net writes: It is probably spelled catarrh - which is an inflammation of a mucous membrane Alice ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Mark Brown" <knodish1@mac.com> To: <brown@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:50 PM Subject: [BROWN] Illness List --- question > Hi Sonja - who appropriate - I just got a couple death certificates > back picking them up from the mail box yesterday --- and figuring out > what they say was my task at hand ---- > > ZJ Brown - of the Schoharie, NY - died January 1889 > Son of Josiah Brown and Tryphena Russell - age 64y 4m 13 days > > Cause of death --- Bronchial Catarck - or perhaps Catar?h > > Any idea what the second word is ? The word that looks the closest is > -- Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > Mark Brown > > PS - ZJ Brown's wife was Grace Clara Brown - born Cayuga Co, d/o of > Melvin Brown and Polly (Mary) Salisbury. > > > "Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly - we > want to grow up so fast - yet as adults we wish just the opposite?" > My Dog Skip > > R. Mark Brown > knodish1@mac.com > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Need a job? Find an employment agency near you. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000003)

Thanks Alice - it actually did look more like catarrh but I questioned the two r in a row --- but that is what it was I think. Thanks - Mark On Tuesday, February 17, 2009, at 10:20AM, "Beverly Peavler" <bp@peavler.org> wrote: >I believe you're right, Alice. My husband's ggrandfather died of >catarrh of the stomach, which my husband's cousin (an MD) said would >have been quite painful. > >Beverly Peavler (a descendant of Nathaniel G. Brown of NC and TN) > >On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Alice A. Ward wrote: > >> It is probably spelled catarrh - which is an inflammation of a mucous >> membrane >> Alice >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "R. Mark Brown" <knodish1@mac.com> >> To: <brown@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:50 PM >> Subject: [BROWN] Illness List --- question >> >> >>> Hi Sonja - who appropriate - I just got a couple death certificates >>> back picking them up from the mail box yesterday --- and figuring out >>> what they say was my task at hand ---- >>> >>> ZJ Brown - of the Schoharie, NY - died January 1889 >>> Son of Josiah Brown and Tryphena Russell - age 64y 4m 13 days >>> >>> Cause of death --- Bronchial Catarck - or perhaps Catar?h >>> >>> Any idea what the second word is ? The word that looks the closest is >>> -- Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy >>> Mark Brown >>> >>> PS - ZJ Brown's wife was Grace Clara Brown - born Cayuga Co, d/o of >>> Melvin Brown and Polly (Mary) Salisbury. >>> >>> >>> "Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly - we >>> want to grow up so fast - yet as adults we wish just the opposite?" >>> My Dog Skip >>> >>> R. Mark Brown >>> knodish1@mac.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes >>> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROWN-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Catarrh Inflammation of a mucous membranes in the air passages of the head and throat Bronchial catarrh was bronchitis; suffocative catarrh was croup; urethral catarrh was gleet; vaginal catarrh was leukorrhea; epidemic catarrh was the same as influenza. Also called cold, coryza. This description came from a list of older diagnoses from a genealogy site, thought it might also help! Billie Allemand (a descendant of Jonas BROWN of OH, b. ca.1827) On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Beverly Peavler <bp@peavler.org> wrote: > I believe you're right, Alice. My husband's ggrandfather died of > catarrh of the stomach, which my husband's cousin (an MD) said would > have been quite painful. > > Beverly Peavler (a descendant of Nathaniel G. Brown of NC and TN) > > On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Alice A. Ward wrote: > > > It is probably spelled catarrh - which is an inflammation of a mucous > > membrane > > Alice > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "R. Mark Brown" <knodish1@mac.com> > > To: <brown@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:50 PM > > Subject: [BROWN] Illness List --- question > > > > > >> Hi Sonja - who appropriate - I just got a couple death certificates > >> back picking them up from the mail box yesterday --- and figuring out > >> what they say was my task at hand ---- > >> > >> ZJ Brown - of the Schoharie, NY - died January 1889 > >> Son of Josiah Brown and Tryphena Russell - age 64y 4m 13 days > >> > >> Cause of death --- Bronchial Catarck - or perhaps Catar?h > >> > >> Any idea what the second word is ? The word that looks the closest is > >> -- Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > >> Mark Brown > >> > >> PS - ZJ Brown's wife was Grace Clara Brown - born Cayuga Co, d/o of > >> Melvin Brown and Polly (Mary) Salisbury. > >> > >> > >> "Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly - we > >> want to grow up so fast - yet as adults we wish just the opposite?" > >> My Dog Skip > >> > >> R. Mark Brown > >> knodish1@mac.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes > >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BROWN-request@rootsweb.com > > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > > the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- B

Hi Jim, Thanks............. ----- Original Message ----- From: <jimbrown848@bellsouth.net> To: <brown@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 8:06 PM Subject: Re: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses > Hi Bob, > Isn't it always nice to have more than one person online with you when you > ask/reply to questions. Jack remembered one I forgot. Typhoid. It was > also very contagious. It might be good for some doctor on line with us to > give us a rundown of what they use to call various diseases prior to 1925, > etc. Then give to to ancestry.com as data that everyone could refer to as > medical references, etc. > Jim Brown > -------------- Original message from "Bob Smith" > <rsmith1173@woh.rr.com>: -------------- > > >> What would have been "The Fever" as noted on my 3rd Great Grandfathers >> death >> certificate in 1861.. >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: >> To: >> Cc: ; ; >> >> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:55 PM >> Subject: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Ablepsy - Blindness >> > Ague - Malarial fever >> > American plague - Yellow fever >> > Anasarca - Generalized massive edema >> > Aphonia - Laryngitis >> > Aphtha - Infant disease "thrush" >> > Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke >> > Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen >> > Asphycsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen >> > Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size >> > Bad blood - Syphilis >> > Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and >> > bile >> > emesis >> > Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease >> > Black plague - Bubonic plague >> > Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin >> > lesions and high mortality rate >> > 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 >> > Bone shave - Sciatica >> > Brain fever - Meningitis >> > Breakbone - Dengue fever >> > Bright's disease - Chronic disease of kidneys >> > Bronze John - Yellow fever >> > Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling >> > Cachexy - Malnutrition >> > Cacogastric - Upset stomach >> > Cacospysy - Irregular pulse >> > Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy >> > Camp fever - Typhus; aka camp diarrhea >> > Canine madness - Rabies; hydrophobia >> > Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips; or herpes simplex >> > Catalepsy - Seizures/trances >> > Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy >> > Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum; or lead poisoning >> > Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold >> > Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child >> > 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, >> > elevated temperature, etc.; could also be appendicitis >> > Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder >> > Cholelithiasis - Gall stones >> > Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing >> > Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills >> > Colic - Abdominal pain and cramping >> > Congestive chills - Malaria >> > Consumption - Tuberculosis >> > Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs >> > Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea >> > Congestive fever - Malaria >> > Corruption - Infection >> > Coryza - A cold >> > Costiveness - Constipation >> > Cramp colic - Appendicitis >> > Crop sickness - Overextended stomach >> > Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat >> > Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood >> > Cynanche - Diseases of throat >> > Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder >> > 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 - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss >> > Diary fever - A fever that lasts more than one day >> > Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat >> > Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose >> > and >> > throat and anorexia >> > Dock fever - Yellow fever >> > Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease >> > Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis >> > Dry bellyache - Lead poisoning >> > Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition >> > Dysentery - Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous >> > and >> > blood >> > Dysorexy - Reduced appetite >> > Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms >> > Dysury - Difficulty in urination >> > Eclampsy - Symptoms fo 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 - Swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness >> > Enteric fever - Typhoid fever >> > Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels >> > Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines >> > Epitaxis - Nose bleed >> > Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease due to Streptococci with vesiculas >> > 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 - Anemia >> > Grippe/grip - Influenza-like symptoms >> > Grocer's itch - Skin disease cause 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 >> > Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever >> > Hematemesis - Vomiting blood >> > Hematuria - Bloody urine >> > Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body >> > Hip gout - Osteomylitis >> > Horrors - Delirium tremers >> > Hydrocephalus - - Enlarged head; water on the brain >> > Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy >> > Hydrophobia - Rabies >> > Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest >> > Hypertrophic - Enlargement of an organ, like the heart >> > 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 cause by blockage of intestines >> > King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands >> > Kruchhusten - Whooping cough >> > Lagrippe - Influenza >> > Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the >> > neck >> > and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in eight (8) days >> > Long sickness - Tuberculosis >> > Lues disease - Syphilis >> > Lues venera - Venereal disease >> > Lumbago - Back pain >> > Lung fever - Pneumonia >> > Lung sickness - Tuberculosis >> > Lying in - Time of delivery of an infant >> > Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria >> > Mania - Insanity >> > Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of the body, like malnutrition >> > Membranous croup - Diphtheria >> > Meningitis - Inflations 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 >> > Nephritis - 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 >> > Paroxysm - Convulsion >> > Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters >> > Pericarditis - Inflammation of the heart >> > Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the lungs >> > Peritonitis - Inflammation of the abdominal area >> > Petechial fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting >> > Phthiriasis - 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 >> > Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of the 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) ??? >> > Rubeola - German measles >> > Sanguineous crust - Scab >> > Scarlatina - Scarlet fever >> > Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by a 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 the skin >> > Septicemia - Blood poisoning >> > Shakes - Delirium tremens >> > Shaking - Chills; ague >> > Ship fever - Typhus >> > Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure >> > Sloes - Milk sickness >> > Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters >> > Softing of brain - Result of stroke or hemmorhage 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 a 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 being bright red in appearance >> > St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurance of rapid complex jerking >> > movements >> > performed involuntarily >> > Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth >> > Stranger's fever - Yellow fever >> > Strangery - Rupture >> > Sudor anglicus - Sweating sickness >> > Summer complaint - Diarrhea, usually in infants, caused by spoiled milk >> > Sunstroke - Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to >> > environment >> > heat; 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>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Catarrh (pronounced /kəˈtɑ:(r)/) is a thick exudate of mucus and white blood cells caused by the swelling of the mucous membranes in the head in response to an infection. It is a symptom usually associated with the common cold and chesty coughs, but can also be found in patients with infections of the adenoids, middle ear, sinus or tonsils. The catarrh may either discharge or cause a blockage which may become chronic. -----Original Message----- From: brown-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:brown-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Alice A. Ward Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:05 AM To: brown@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BROWN] Illness List --- question You're most welcome. I had seen this listed many times before as a cause of death, so was somewhat familiar with the term. Alice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Brown" <knodish1@mac.com> To: <brown@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [BROWN] Illness List --- question > Thanks Alice - it actually did look more like catarrh but I questioned the > two r in a row --- but that is what it was I think. Thanks - Mark ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My first thought was cataract. I believe at one time it could also mean obstruction. So it would be a Bronchial obstruction. It makes sense but I wouldn't swear by it. -----Original Message----- From: brown-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:brown-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mark Brown Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:36 AM To: brown@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BROWN] Illness List --- question Thanks Alice - it actually did look more like catarrh but I questioned the two r in a row --- but that is what it was I think. Thanks - Mark

My great grandfather's name was Thomas Harris Brown, b. March 25, 1823 & d. Jan 17, 1910)....I have no information about his family and would love to find my Brown ancestors. . The census' says Thomas Harris Brown was born in VA was an Overseer in Nelson Co. VA at the age of 29 per census. He married into an Albemarle Co., Va family (Hamner & Herndon) Elizabeth Marshall Hamner, daughter of Jesse B. Hamner & Sarah Witherall Herndon in 1853 in Nelson Co. VA. His first child Thomas Elliott was born in VA & then the family, with Sam M. Brown (brother? b. 1823. also in VA), seem to have moved to Looxahoma, De Soto, MS where their other children were born. Other Virginians listed in MS at the time were... a Thomas G. Brown b. VA (62 yrs, Arkabutla, MS) and a W.(probably Wesley) H. Brown b. VA (28, Hernando MS) were in DeSoto MS in 1860 as well.

It is probably spelled catarrh - which is an inflammation of a mucous membrane Alice ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Mark Brown" <knodish1@mac.com> To: <brown@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:50 PM Subject: [BROWN] Illness List --- question > Hi Sonja - who appropriate - I just got a couple death certificates > back picking them up from the mail box yesterday --- and figuring out > what they say was my task at hand ---- > > ZJ Brown - of the Schoharie, NY - died January 1889 > Son of Josiah Brown and Tryphena Russell - age 64y 4m 13 days > > Cause of death --- Bronchial Catarck - or perhaps Catar?h > > Any idea what the second word is ? The word that looks the closest is > -- Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > Mark Brown > > PS - ZJ Brown's wife was Grace Clara Brown - born Cayuga Co, d/o of > Melvin Brown and Polly (Mary) Salisbury. > > > "Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly - we > want to grow up so fast - yet as adults we wish just the opposite?" > My Dog Skip > > R. Mark Brown > knodish1@mac.com > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses http://genealogytrails.com/main/illnessdefinitions.html Rhonda Fischer -----Original Message----- From: brown-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:brown-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of brown-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 6:35 PM To: brown@rootsweb.com Subject: BROWN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 14 Brown Today's Topics: 1. Re: Early Terminology of Illnesses (jimbrown848@bellsouth.net) 2. Re: Early Terminology of Illnesses (Jackie Purlee) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:39:21 +0000 From: jimbrown848@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses To: brown@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <021620092239.5695.4999EB18000C8C170000163F22216125569B0A02D2089B9A019C04040 A0DBFC8CBC80299019D0D030706@att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Bob, Possibly scarlet fever. I had grandparents that died of that around 1890. Were buried in unmarked graves so that no one would know where they were. Was very contagious. Consumption was apparently referred to as TB. Anyway, hope this helps. Jim Brown,Jr. Gastonia -------------- Original message from "Bob Smith" <rsmith1173@woh.rr.com>: -------------- > What would have been "The Fever" as noted on my 3rd Great Grandfathers death > certificate in 1861.. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Cc: ; ; > > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:55 PM > Subject: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > > > Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > Ablepsy - Blindness > > Ague - Malarial fever > > American plague - Yellow fever > > Anasarca - Generalized massive edema > > Aphonia - Laryngitis > > Aphtha - Infant disease "thrush" > > Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke > > Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Asphycsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size > > Bad blood - Syphilis > > Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and > > bile > > emesis > > Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease > > Black plague - Bubonic plague > > Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin > > lesions and high mortality rate > > 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 > > Bone shave - Sciatica > > Brain fever - Meningitis > > Breakbone - Dengue fever > > Bright's disease - Chronic disease of kidneys > > Bronze John - Yellow fever > > Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling > > Cachexy - Malnutrition > > Cacogastric - Upset stomach > > Cacospysy - Irregular pulse > > Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy > > Camp fever - Typhus; aka camp diarrhea > > Canine madness - Rabies; hydrophobia > > Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips; or herpes simplex > > Catalepsy - Seizures/trances > > Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > > Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum; or lead poisoning > > Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold > > Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child > > 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, > > elevated temperature, etc.; could also be appendicitis > > Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder > > Cholelithiasis - Gall stones > > Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing > > Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills > > Colic - Abdominal pain and cramping > > Congestive chills - Malaria > > Consumption - Tuberculosis > > Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs > > Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea > > Congestive fever - Malaria > > Corruption - Infection > > Coryza - A cold > > Costiveness - Constipation > > Cramp colic - Appendicitis > > Crop sickness - Overextended stomach > > Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat > > Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood > > Cynanche - Diseases of throat > > Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder > > 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 - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss > > Diary fever - A fever that lasts more than one day > > Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat > > Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and > > throat and anorexia > > Dock fever - Yellow fever > > Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease > > Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis > > Dry bellyache - Lead poisoning > > Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition > > Dysentery - Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous and > > blood > > Dysorexy - Reduced appetite > > Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms > > Dysury - Difficulty in urination > > Eclampsy - Symptoms fo 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 - Swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness > > Enteric fever - Typhoid fever > > Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels > > Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines > > Epitaxis - Nose bleed > > Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease due to Streptococci with vesiculas > > 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 - Anemia > > Grippe/grip - Influenza-like symptoms > > Grocer's itch - Skin disease cause 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 > > Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever > > Hematemesis - Vomiting blood > > Hematuria - Bloody urine > > Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body > > Hip gout - Osteomylitis > > Horrors - Delirium tremers > > Hydrocephalus - - Enlarged head; water on the brain > > Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy > > Hydrophobia - Rabies > > Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest > > Hypertrophic - Enlargement of an organ, like the heart > > 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 cause by blockage of intestines > > King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands > > Kruchhusten - Whooping cough > > Lagrippe - Influenza > > Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck > > and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in eight (8) days > > Long sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lues disease - Syphilis > > Lues venera - Venereal disease > > Lumbago - Back pain > > Lung fever - Pneumonia > > Lung sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lying in - Time of delivery of an infant > > Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria > > Mania - Insanity > > Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of the body, like malnutrition > > Membranous croup - Diphtheria > > Meningitis - Inflations 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 > > Nephritis - 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 > > Paroxysm - Convulsion > > Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters > > Pericarditis - Inflammation of the heart > > Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the lungs > > Peritonitis - Inflammation of the abdominal area > > Petechial fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting > > Phthiriasis - 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 > > Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of the 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) ??? > > Rubeola - German measles > > Sanguineous crust - Scab > > Scarlatina - Scarlet fever > > Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by a 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 the skin > > Septicemia - Blood poisoning > > Shakes - Delirium tremens > > Shaking - Chills; ague > > Ship fever - Typhus > > Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure > > Sloes - Milk sickness > > Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters > > Softing of brain - Result of stroke or hemmorhage 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 a 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 being bright red in appearance > > St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurance of rapid complex jerking movements > > performed involuntarily > > Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth > > Stranger's fever - Yellow fever > > Strangery - Rupture > > 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 the UK in > > the > > 15th century > > Tetanus - Infectious disease 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 by high fever, headache and > > dizziness > > Variola - Smallpox > > Venesection - Bleeding > > Viper's dance - St. Vitus dance > > Yellowjacket - Yellow fever > > > > > > **************Need a job? Find an employment agency near you. > > > (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies&ncid=emlcntusye lp00 > 000003) > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) > > Database version: 5.11770 > > http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ > > > > > > E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) > Database version: 5.11770 > http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROWN-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:34:13 -0800 (PST) From: Jackie Purlee <jackie_purlee@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses To: brown@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <177224.88771.qm@web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 It could possibly be typhoid fever, dairy fever, or any number of other things. Need to check it there was anything going around at that time. ? ________________________________ From: "jimbrown848@bellsouth.net" <jimbrown848@bellsouth.net> To: brown@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 5:39:21 PM Subject: Re: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses Bob, Possibly scarlet fever.? I had grandparents that died of that around 1890.? Were buried in unmarked graves so that no one would know where they were.? Was very contagious.? Consumption was apparently referred to as TB.? Anyway, hope this helps. Jim Brown,Jr. Gastonia -------------- Original message from "Bob Smith" <rsmith1173@woh.rr.com>: -------------- > What would have been "The Fever" as noted on my 3rd Great Grandfathers death > certificate in 1861.. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Cc: ; ; > > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:55 PM > Subject: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > > > Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > Ablepsy - Blindness > > Ague - Malarial fever > > American plague - Yellow fever > > Anasarca - Generalized massive edema > > Aphonia - Laryngitis > > Aphtha - Infant disease "thrush" > > Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke > > Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Asphycsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size > > Bad blood - Syphilis > > Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and > > bile > > emesis > > Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease > > Black plague - Bubonic plague > > Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin > > lesions and high mortality rate > > 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 > > Bone shave - Sciatica > > Brain fever - Meningitis > > Breakbone - Dengue fever > > Bright's disease - Chronic disease of kidneys > > Bronze John - Yellow fever > > Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling > > Cachexy - Malnutrition > > Cacogastric - Upset stomach > > Cacospysy - Irregular pulse > > Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy > > Camp fever - Typhus; aka camp diarrhea > > Canine madness - Rabies; hydrophobia > > Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips; or herpes simplex > > Catalepsy - Seizures/trances > > Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > > Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum; or lead poisoning > > Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold > > Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child > > 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, > > elevated temperature, etc.; could also be appendicitis > > Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder > > Cholelithiasis - Gall stones > > Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing > > Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills > > Colic - Abdominal pain and cramping > > Congestive chills - Malaria > > Consumption - Tuberculosis > > Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs > > Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea > > Congestive fever - Malaria > > Corruption - Infection > > Coryza - A cold > > Costiveness - Constipation > > Cramp colic - Appendicitis > > Crop sickness - Overextended stomach > > Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat > > Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood > > Cynanche - Diseases of throat > > Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder > > 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 - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss > > Diary fever - A fever that lasts more than one day > > Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat > > Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and > > throat and anorexia > > Dock fever - Yellow fever > > Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease > > Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis > > Dry bellyache - Lead poisoning > > Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition > > Dysentery - Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous and > > blood > > Dysorexy - Reduced appetite > > Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms > > Dysury - Difficulty in urination > > Eclampsy - Symptoms fo 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 - Swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness > > Enteric fever - Typhoid fever > > Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels > > Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines > > Epitaxis - Nose bleed > > Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease due to Streptococci with vesiculas > > 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 - Anemia > > Grippe/grip - Influenza-like symptoms > > Grocer's itch - Skin disease cause 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 > > Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever > > Hematemesis - Vomiting blood > > Hematuria - Bloody urine > > Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body > > Hip gout - Osteomylitis > > Horrors - Delirium tremers > > Hydrocephalus - - Enlarged head; water on the brain > > Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy > > Hydrophobia - Rabies > > Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest > > Hypertrophic - Enlargement of an organ, like the heart > > 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 cause by blockage of intestines > > King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands > > Kruchhusten - Whooping cough > > Lagrippe - Influenza > > Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck > > and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in eight (8) days > > Long sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lues disease - Syphilis > > Lues venera - Venereal disease > > Lumbago - Back pain > > Lung fever - Pneumonia > > Lung sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lying in - Time of delivery of an infant > > Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria > > Mania - Insanity > > Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of the body, like malnutrition > > Membranous croup - Diphtheria > > Meningitis - Inflations 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 > > Nephritis - 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 > > Paroxysm - Convulsion > > Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters > > Pericarditis - Inflammation of the heart > > Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the lungs > > Peritonitis - Inflammation of the abdominal area > > Petechial fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting > > Phthiriasis - 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 > > Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of the 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) ??? > > Rubeola - German measles > > Sanguineous crust - Scab > > Scarlatina - Scarlet fever > > Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by a 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 the skin > > Septicemia - Blood poisoning > > Shakes - Delirium tremens > > Shaking - Chills; ague > > Ship fever - Typhus > > Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure > > Sloes - Milk sickness > > Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters > > Softing of brain - Result of stroke or hemmorhage 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 a 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 being bright red in appearance > > St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurance of rapid complex jerking movements > > performed involuntarily > > Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth > > Stranger's fever - Yellow fever > > Strangery - Rupture > > 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 the UK in > > the > > 15th century > > Tetanus - Infectious disease 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 by high fever, headache and > > dizziness > > Variola - Smallpox > > Venesection - Bleeding > > Viper's dance - St. Vitus dance > > Yellowjacket - Yellow fever > > > > > > **************Need a job? 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I believe you're right, Alice. My husband's ggrandfather died of catarrh of the stomach, which my husband's cousin (an MD) said would have been quite painful. Beverly Peavler (a descendant of Nathaniel G. Brown of NC and TN) On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Alice A. Ward wrote: > It is probably spelled catarrh - which is an inflammation of a mucous > membrane > Alice > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "R. Mark Brown" <knodish1@mac.com> > To: <brown@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:50 PM > Subject: [BROWN] Illness List --- question > > >> Hi Sonja - who appropriate - I just got a couple death certificates >> back picking them up from the mail box yesterday --- and figuring out >> what they say was my task at hand ---- >> >> ZJ Brown - of the Schoharie, NY - died January 1889 >> Son of Josiah Brown and Tryphena Russell - age 64y 4m 13 days >> >> Cause of death --- Bronchial Catarck - or perhaps Catar?h >> >> Any idea what the second word is ? The word that looks the closest is >> -- Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy >> Mark Brown >> >> PS - ZJ Brown's wife was Grace Clara Brown - born Cayuga Co, d/o of >> Melvin Brown and Polly (Mary) Salisbury. >> >> >> "Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly - we >> want to grow up so fast - yet as adults we wish just the opposite?" >> My Dog Skip >> >> R. Mark Brown >> knodish1@mac.com >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROWN-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

Also take a look at http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Links.htm and http://ohioheritage.tripod.com/ohioheritage/id6.html On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Dennice Goudie <dennice-goudie@shaw.ca>wrote: > http://genealogytrails.com/main/illnessdefinitions.html > >

Hi Bob, Isn't it always nice to have more than one person online with you when you ask/reply to questions. Jack remembered one I forgot. Typhoid. It was also very contagious. It might be good for some doctor on line with us to give us a rundown of what they use to call various diseases prior to 1925, etc. Then give to to ancestry.com as data that everyone could refer to as medical references, etc. Jim Brown -------------- Original message from "Bob Smith" <rsmith1173@woh.rr.com>: -------------- > What would have been "The Fever" as noted on my 3rd Great Grandfathers death > certificate in 1861.. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Cc: ; ; > > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:55 PM > Subject: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > > > Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > Ablepsy - Blindness > > Ague - Malarial fever > > American plague - Yellow fever > > Anasarca - Generalized massive edema > > Aphonia - Laryngitis > > Aphtha - Infant disease "thrush" > > Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke > > Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Asphycsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size > > Bad blood - Syphilis > > Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and > > bile > > emesis > > Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease > > Black plague - Bubonic plague > > Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin > > lesions and high mortality rate > > 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 > > Bone shave - Sciatica > > Brain fever - Meningitis > > Breakbone - Dengue fever > > Bright's disease - Chronic disease of kidneys > > Bronze John - Yellow fever > > Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling > > Cachexy - Malnutrition > > Cacogastric - Upset stomach > > Cacospysy - Irregular pulse > > Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy > > Camp fever - Typhus; aka camp diarrhea > > Canine madness - Rabies; hydrophobia > > Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips; or herpes simplex > > Catalepsy - Seizures/trances > > Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > > Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum; or lead poisoning > > Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold > > Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child > > 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, > > elevated temperature, etc.; could also be appendicitis > > Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder > > Cholelithiasis - Gall stones > > Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing > > Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills > > Colic - Abdominal pain and cramping > > Congestive chills - Malaria > > Consumption - Tuberculosis > > Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs > > Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea > > Congestive fever - Malaria > > Corruption - Infection > > Coryza - A cold > > Costiveness - Constipation > > Cramp colic - Appendicitis > > Crop sickness - Overextended stomach > > Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat > > Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood > > Cynanche - Diseases of throat > > Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder > > 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 - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss > > Diary fever - A fever that lasts more than one day > > Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat > > Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and > > throat and anorexia > > Dock fever - Yellow fever > > Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease > > Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis > > Dry bellyache - Lead poisoning > > Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition > > Dysentery - Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous and > > blood > > Dysorexy - Reduced appetite > > Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms > > Dysury - Difficulty in urination > > Eclampsy - Symptoms fo 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 - Swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness > > Enteric fever - Typhoid fever > > Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels > > Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines > > Epitaxis - Nose bleed > > Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease due to Streptococci with vesiculas > > 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 - Anemia > > Grippe/grip - Influenza-like symptoms > > Grocer's itch - Skin disease cause 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 > > Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever > > Hematemesis - Vomiting blood > > Hematuria - Bloody urine > > Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body > > Hip gout - Osteomylitis > > Horrors - Delirium tremers > > Hydrocephalus - - Enlarged head; water on the brain > > Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy > > Hydrophobia - Rabies > > Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest > > Hypertrophic - Enlargement of an organ, like the heart > > 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 cause by blockage of intestines > > King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands > > Kruchhusten - Whooping cough > > Lagrippe - Influenza > > Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck > > and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in eight (8) days > > Long sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lues disease - Syphilis > > Lues venera - Venereal disease > > Lumbago - Back pain > > Lung fever - Pneumonia > > Lung sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lying in - Time of delivery of an infant > > Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria > > Mania - Insanity > > Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of the body, like malnutrition > > Membranous croup - Diphtheria > > Meningitis - Inflations 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 > > Nephritis - 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 > > Paroxysm - Convulsion > > Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters > > Pericarditis - Inflammation of the heart > > Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the lungs > > Peritonitis - Inflammation of the abdominal area > > Petechial fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting > > Phthiriasis - 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 > > Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of the 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) ??? > > Rubeola - German measles > > Sanguineous crust - Scab > > Scarlatina - Scarlet fever > > Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by a 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 the skin > > Septicemia - Blood poisoning > > Shakes - Delirium tremens > > Shaking - Chills; ague > > Ship fever - Typhus > > Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure > > Sloes - Milk sickness > > Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters > > Softing of brain - Result of stroke or hemmorhage 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 a 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 being bright red in appearance > > St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurance of rapid complex jerking movements > > performed involuntarily > > Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth > > Stranger's fever - Yellow fever > > Strangery - Rupture > > 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 the UK in > > the > > 15th century > > Tetanus - Infectious disease 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 by high fever, headache and > > dizziness > > Variola - Smallpox > > Venesection - Bleeding > > Viper's dance - St. Vitus dance > > Yellowjacket - Yellow fever > > > > > > **************Need a job? 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Hi Sonja - who appropriate - I just got a couple death certificates back picking them up from the mail box yesterday --- and figuring out what they say was my task at hand ---- ZJ Brown - of the Schoharie, NY - died January 1889 Son of Josiah Brown and Tryphena Russell - age 64y 4m 13 days Cause of death --- Bronchial Catarck - or perhaps Catar?h Any idea what the second word is ? The word that looks the closest is -- Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy Mark Brown PS - ZJ Brown's wife was Grace Clara Brown - born Cayuga Co, d/o of Melvin Brown and Polly (Mary) Salisbury. "Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly - we want to grow up so fast - yet as adults we wish just the opposite?" My Dog Skip R. Mark Brown knodish1@mac.com

Bob, Possibly scarlet fever. I had grandparents that died of that around 1890. Were buried in unmarked graves so that no one would know where they were. Was very contagious. Consumption was apparently referred to as TB. Anyway, hope this helps. Jim Brown,Jr. Gastonia -------------- Original message from "Bob Smith" <rsmith1173@woh.rr.com>: -------------- > What would have been "The Fever" as noted on my 3rd Great Grandfathers death > certificate in 1861.. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Cc: ; ; > > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:55 PM > Subject: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > > > Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > Ablepsy - Blindness > > Ague - Malarial fever > > American plague - Yellow fever > > Anasarca - Generalized massive edema > > Aphonia - Laryngitis > > Aphtha - Infant disease "thrush" > > Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke > > Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Asphycsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size > > Bad blood - Syphilis > > Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and > > bile > > emesis > > Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease > > Black plague - Bubonic plague > > Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin > > lesions and high mortality rate > > 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 > > Bone shave - Sciatica > > Brain fever - Meningitis > > Breakbone - Dengue fever > > Bright's disease - Chronic disease of kidneys > > Bronze John - Yellow fever > > Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling > > Cachexy - Malnutrition > > Cacogastric - Upset stomach > > Cacospysy - Irregular pulse > > Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy > > Camp fever - Typhus; aka camp diarrhea > > Canine madness - Rabies; hydrophobia > > Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips; or herpes simplex > > Catalepsy - Seizures/trances > > Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > > Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum; or lead poisoning > > Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold > > Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child > > 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, > > elevated temperature, etc.; could also be appendicitis > > Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder > > Cholelithiasis - Gall stones > > Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing > > Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills > > Colic - Abdominal pain and cramping > > Congestive chills - Malaria > > Consumption - Tuberculosis > > Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs > > Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea > > Congestive fever - Malaria > > Corruption - Infection > > Coryza - A cold > > Costiveness - Constipation > > Cramp colic - Appendicitis > > Crop sickness - Overextended stomach > > Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat > > Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood > > Cynanche - Diseases of throat > > Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder > > 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 - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss > > Diary fever - A fever that lasts more than one day > > Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat > > Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and > > throat and anorexia > > Dock fever - Yellow fever > > Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease > > Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis > > Dry bellyache - Lead poisoning > > Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition > > Dysentery - Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous and > > blood > > Dysorexy - Reduced appetite > > Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms > > Dysury - Difficulty in urination > > Eclampsy - Symptoms fo 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 - Swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness > > Enteric fever - Typhoid fever > > Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels > > Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines > > Epitaxis - Nose bleed > > Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease due to Streptococci with vesiculas > > 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 - Anemia > > Grippe/grip - Influenza-like symptoms > > Grocer's itch - Skin disease cause 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 > > Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever > > Hematemesis - Vomiting blood > > Hematuria - Bloody urine > > Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body > > Hip gout - Osteomylitis > > Horrors - Delirium tremers > > Hydrocephalus - - Enlarged head; water on the brain > > Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy > > Hydrophobia - Rabies > > Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest > > Hypertrophic - Enlargement of an organ, like the heart > > 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 cause by blockage of intestines > > King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands > > Kruchhusten - Whooping cough > > Lagrippe - Influenza > > Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck > > and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in eight (8) days > > Long sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lues disease - Syphilis > > Lues venera - Venereal disease > > Lumbago - Back pain > > Lung fever - Pneumonia > > Lung sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lying in - Time of delivery of an infant > > Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria > > Mania - Insanity > > Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of the body, like malnutrition > > Membranous croup - Diphtheria > > Meningitis - Inflations 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 > > Nephritis - 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 > > Paroxysm - Convulsion > > Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters > > Pericarditis - Inflammation of the heart > > Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the lungs > > Peritonitis - Inflammation of the abdominal area > > Petechial fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting > > Phthiriasis - 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 > > Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of the 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) ??? > > Rubeola - German measles > > Sanguineous crust - Scab > > Scarlatina - Scarlet fever > > Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by a 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 the skin > > Septicemia - Blood poisoning > > Shakes - Delirium tremens > > Shaking - Chills; ague > > Ship fever - Typhus > > Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure > > Sloes - Milk sickness > > Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters > > Softing of brain - Result of stroke or hemmorhage 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 a 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 being bright red in appearance > > St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurance of rapid complex jerking movements > > performed involuntarily > > Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth > > Stranger's fever - Yellow fever > > Strangery - Rupture > > 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 the UK in > > the > > 15th century > > Tetanus - Infectious disease 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 by high fever, headache and > > dizziness > > Variola - Smallpox > > Venesection - Bleeding > > Viper's dance - St. Vitus dance > > Yellowjacket - Yellow fever > > > > > > **************Need a job? 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He lived in Smyth Co. Va. and died in Knox County Tenn. 1861, pretty far away as the horse travels. We never did figure it out... ----- Original Message ----- From: <jimbrown848@bellsouth.net> To: <brown@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses > Bob, > Possibly scarlet fever. I had grandparents that died of that around 1890. > Were buried in unmarked graves so that no one would know where they were. > Was very contagious. Consumption was apparently referred to as TB. > Anyway, hope this helps. > Jim Brown,Jr. > Gastonia > -------------- Original message from "Bob Smith" > <rsmith1173@woh.rr.com>: -------------- > > >> What would have been "The Fever" as noted on my 3rd Great Grandfathers >> death >> certificate in 1861.. >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: >> To: >> Cc: ; ; >> >> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:55 PM >> Subject: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Ablepsy - Blindness >> > Ague - Malarial fever >> > American plague - Yellow fever >> > Anasarca - Generalized massive edema >> > Aphonia - Laryngitis >> > Aphtha - Infant disease "thrush" >> > Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke >> > Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen >> > Asphycsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen >> > Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size >> > Bad blood - Syphilis >> > Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and >> > bile >> > emesis >> > Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease >> > Black plague - Bubonic plague >> > Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin >> > lesions and high mortality rate >> > 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 >> > Bone shave - Sciatica >> > Brain fever - Meningitis >> > Breakbone - Dengue fever >> > Bright's disease - Chronic disease of kidneys >> > Bronze John - Yellow fever >> > Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling >> > Cachexy - Malnutrition >> > Cacogastric - Upset stomach >> > Cacospysy - Irregular pulse >> > Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy >> > Camp fever - Typhus; aka camp diarrhea >> > Canine madness - Rabies; hydrophobia >> > Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips; or herpes simplex >> > Catalepsy - Seizures/trances >> > Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy >> > Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum; or lead poisoning >> > Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold >> > Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child >> > 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, >> > elevated temperature, etc.; could also be appendicitis >> > Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder >> > Cholelithiasis - Gall stones >> > Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing >> > Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills >> > Colic - Abdominal pain and cramping >> > Congestive chills - Malaria >> > Consumption - Tuberculosis >> > Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs >> > Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea >> > Congestive fever - Malaria >> > Corruption - Infection >> > Coryza - A cold >> > Costiveness - Constipation >> > Cramp colic - Appendicitis >> > Crop sickness - Overextended stomach >> > Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat >> > Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood >> > Cynanche - Diseases of throat >> > Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder >> > 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 - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss >> > Diary fever - A fever that lasts more than one day >> > Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat >> > Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose >> > and >> > throat and anorexia >> > Dock fever - Yellow fever >> > Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease >> > Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis >> > Dry bellyache - Lead poisoning >> > Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition >> > Dysentery - Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous >> > and >> > blood >> > Dysorexy - Reduced appetite >> > Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms >> > Dysury - Difficulty in urination >> > Eclampsy - Symptoms fo 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 - Swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness >> > Enteric fever - Typhoid fever >> > Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels >> > Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines >> > Epitaxis - Nose bleed >> > Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease due to Streptococci with vesiculas >> > 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 - Anemia >> > Grippe/grip - Influenza-like symptoms >> > Grocer's itch - Skin disease cause 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 >> > Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever >> > Hematemesis - Vomiting blood >> > Hematuria - Bloody urine >> > Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body >> > Hip gout - Osteomylitis >> > Horrors - Delirium tremers >> > Hydrocephalus - - Enlarged head; water on the brain >> > Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy >> > Hydrophobia - Rabies >> > Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest >> > Hypertrophic - Enlargement of an organ, like the heart >> > 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 cause by blockage of intestines >> > King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands >> > Kruchhusten - Whooping cough >> > Lagrippe - Influenza >> > Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the >> > neck >> > and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in eight (8) days >> > Long sickness - Tuberculosis >> > Lues disease - Syphilis >> > Lues venera - Venereal disease >> > Lumbago - Back pain >> > Lung fever - Pneumonia >> > Lung sickness - Tuberculosis >> > Lying in - Time of delivery of an infant >> > Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria >> > Mania - Insanity >> > Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of the body, like malnutrition >> > Membranous croup - Diphtheria >> > Meningitis - Inflations 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 >> > Nephritis - 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 >> > Paroxysm - Convulsion >> > Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters >> > Pericarditis - Inflammation of the heart >> > Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the lungs >> > Peritonitis - Inflammation of the abdominal area >> > Petechial fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting >> > Phthiriasis - 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 >> > Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of the 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) ??? >> > Rubeola - German measles >> > Sanguineous crust - Scab >> > Scarlatina - Scarlet fever >> > Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by a 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 the skin >> > Septicemia - Blood poisoning >> > Shakes - Delirium tremens >> > Shaking - Chills; ague >> > Ship fever - Typhus >> > Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure >> > Sloes - Milk sickness >> > Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters >> > Softing of brain - Result of stroke or hemmorhage 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 a 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 being bright red in appearance >> > St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurance of rapid complex jerking >> > movements >> > performed involuntarily >> > Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth >> > Stranger's fever - Yellow fever >> > Strangery - Rupture >> > 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 the UK in >> > the >> > 15th century >> > Tetanus - Infectious disease 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 by high fever, headache and >> > dizziness >> > Variola - Smallpox >> > Venesection - Bleeding >> > Viper's dance - St. Vitus dance >> > Yellowjacket - Yellow fever >> > >> > >> > **************Need a job? 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Thanks Jack......... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Purlee" <jackie_purlee@yahoo.com> To: <brown@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses It could possibly be typhoid fever, dairy fever, or any number of other things. Need to check it there was anything going around at that time. ________________________________ From: "jimbrown848@bellsouth.net" <jimbrown848@bellsouth.net> To: brown@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 5:39:21 PM Subject: Re: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses Bob, Possibly scarlet fever. I had grandparents that died of that around 1890.. Were buried in unmarked graves so that no one would know where they were. Was very contagious. Consumption was apparently referred to as TB.. Anyway, hope this helps. Jim Brown,Jr. Gastonia -------------- Original message from "Bob Smith" <rsmith1173@woh.rr.com>: -------------- > What would have been "The Fever" as noted on my 3rd Great Grandfathers > death > certificate in 1861.. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Cc: ; ; > > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:55 PM > Subject: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > > > Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > Ablepsy - Blindness > > Ague - Malarial fever > > American plague - Yellow fever > > Anasarca - Generalized massive edema > > Aphonia - Laryngitis > > Aphtha - Infant disease "thrush" > > Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke > > Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Asphycsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size > > Bad blood - Syphilis > > Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and > > bile > > emesis > > Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease > > Black plague - Bubonic plague > > Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin > > lesions and high mortality rate > > 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 > > Bone shave - Sciatica > > Brain fever - Meningitis > > Breakbone - Dengue fever > > Bright's disease - Chronic disease of kidneys > > Bronze John - Yellow fever > > Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling > > Cachexy - Malnutrition > > Cacogastric - Upset stomach > > Cacospysy - Irregular pulse > > Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy > > Camp fever - Typhus; aka camp diarrhea > > Canine madness - Rabies; hydrophobia > > Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips; or herpes simplex > > Catalepsy - Seizures/trances > > Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > > Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum; or lead poisoning > > Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold > > Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child > > 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, > > elevated temperature, etc.; could also be appendicitis > > Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder > > Cholelithiasis - Gall stones > > Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing > > Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills > > Colic - Abdominal pain and cramping > > Congestive chills - Malaria > > Consumption - Tuberculosis > > Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs > > Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea > > Congestive fever - Malaria > > Corruption - Infection > > Coryza - A cold > > Costiveness - Constipation > > Cramp colic - Appendicitis > > Crop sickness - Overextended stomach > > Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat > > Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood > > Cynanche - Diseases of throat > > Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder > > 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 - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss > > Diary fever - A fever that lasts more than one day > > Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat > > Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and > > throat and anorexia > > Dock fever - Yellow fever > > Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease > > Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis > > Dry bellyache - Lead poisoning > > Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition > > Dysentery - Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous > > and > > blood > > Dysorexy - Reduced appetite > > Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms > > Dysury - Difficulty in urination > > Eclampsy - Symptoms fo 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 - Swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness > > Enteric fever - Typhoid fever > > Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels > > Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines > > Epitaxis - Nose bleed > > Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease due to Streptococci with vesiculas > > 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 - Anemia > > Grippe/grip - Influenza-like symptoms > > Grocer's itch - Skin disease cause 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 > > Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever > > Hematemesis - Vomiting blood > > Hematuria - Bloody urine > > Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body > > Hip gout - Osteomylitis > > Horrors - Delirium tremers > > Hydrocephalus - - Enlarged head; water on the brain > > Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy > > Hydrophobia - Rabies > > Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest > > Hypertrophic - Enlargement of an organ, like the heart > > 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 cause by blockage of intestines > > King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands > > Kruchhusten - Whooping cough > > Lagrippe - Influenza > > Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the > > neck > > and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in eight (8) days > > Long sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lues disease - Syphilis > > Lues venera - Venereal disease > > Lumbago - Back pain > > Lung fever - Pneumonia > > Lung sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lying in - Time of delivery of an infant > > Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria > > Mania - Insanity > > Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of the body, like malnutrition > > Membranous croup - Diphtheria > > Meningitis - Inflations 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 > > Nephritis - 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 > > Paroxysm - Convulsion > > Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters > > Pericarditis - Inflammation of the heart > > Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the lungs > > Peritonitis - Inflammation of the abdominal area > > Petechial fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting > > Phthiriasis - 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 > > Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of the 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) ??? > > Rubeola - German measles > > Sanguineous crust - Scab > > Scarlatina - Scarlet fever > > Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by a 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 the skin > > Septicemia - Blood poisoning > > Shakes - Delirium tremens > > Shaking - Chills; ague > > Ship fever - Typhus > > Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure > > Sloes - Milk sickness > > Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters > > Softing of brain - Result of stroke or hemmorhage 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 a 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 being bright red in appearance > > St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurance of rapid complex jerking movements > > performed involuntarily > > Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth > > Stranger's fever - Yellow fever > > Strangery - Rupture > > 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 the UK in > > the > > 15th century > > Tetanus - Infectious disease 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 by high fever, headache and > > dizziness > > Variola - Smallpox > > Venesection - Bleeding > > Viper's dance - St. Vitus dance > > Yellowjacket - Yellow fever > > > > > > **************Need a job? 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Care to share your source for this information? ----- Original Message ----- From: <SONAVAN@aol.com> To: <NYCHEMUN-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: <Brown-L@rootsweb.com>; <NYSARATO-L@rootsweb.com>; <NYCAYUGA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 11:55 AM Subject: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses Ablepsy - Blindness Ague - Malarial fever American plague - Yellow fever Anasarca - Generalized massive edema Aphonia - Laryngitis Aphtha - Infant disease "thrush" Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen Asphycsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size Bad blood - Syphilis Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease Black plague - Bubonic plague Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate 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 Bone shave - Sciatica Brain fever - Meningitis Breakbone - Dengue fever Bright's disease - Chronic disease of kidneys Bronze John - Yellow fever Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling Cachexy - Malnutrition Cacogastric - Upset stomach Cacospysy - Irregular pulse Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy Camp fever - Typhus; aka camp diarrhea Canine madness - Rabies; hydrophobia Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips; or herpes simplex Catalepsy - Seizures/trances Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum; or lead poisoning Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child 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, elevated temperature, etc.; could also be appendicitis Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder Cholelithiasis - Gall stones Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills Colic - Abdominal pain and cramping Congestive chills - Malaria Consumption - Tuberculosis Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea Congestive fever - Malaria Corruption - Infection Coryza - A cold Costiveness - Constipation Cramp colic - Appendicitis Crop sickness - Overextended stomach Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood Cynanche - Diseases of throat Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder 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 - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss Diary fever - A fever that lasts more than one day Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat and anorexia Dock fever - Yellow fever Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis Dry bellyache - Lead poisoning Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition Dysentery - Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood Dysorexy - Reduced appetite Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms Dysury - Difficulty in urination Eclampsy - Symptoms fo 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 - Swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness Enteric fever - Typhoid fever Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines Epitaxis - Nose bleed Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease due to Streptococci with vesiculas 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 - Anemia Grippe/grip - Influenza-like symptoms Grocer's itch - Skin disease cause 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 Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever Hematemesis - Vomiting blood Hematuria - Bloody urine Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body Hip gout - Osteomylitis Horrors - Delirium tremers Hydrocephalus - - Enlarged head; water on the brain Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy Hydrophobia - Rabies Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest Hypertrophic - Enlargement of an organ, like the heart 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 cause by blockage of intestines King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands Kruchhusten - Whooping cough Lagrippe - Influenza Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in eight (8) days Long sickness - Tuberculosis Lues disease - Syphilis Lues venera - Venereal disease Lumbago - Back pain Lung fever - Pneumonia Lung sickness - Tuberculosis Lying in - Time of delivery of an infant Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria Mania - Insanity Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of the body, like malnutrition Membranous croup - Diphtheria Meningitis - Inflations 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 Nephritis - 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 Paroxysm - Convulsion Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters Pericarditis - Inflammation of the heart Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the lungs Peritonitis - Inflammation of the abdominal area Petechial fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting Phthiriasis - 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 Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of the 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) ??? Rubeola - German measles Sanguineous crust - Scab Scarlatina - Scarlet fever Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by a 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 the skin Septicemia - Blood poisoning Shakes - Delirium tremens Shaking - Chills; ague Ship fever - Typhus Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure Sloes - Milk sickness Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters Softing of brain - Result of stroke or hemmorhage 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 a 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 being bright red in appearance St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurance of rapid complex jerking movements performed involuntarily Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth Stranger's fever - Yellow fever Strangery - Rupture 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 the UK in the 15th century Tetanus - Infectious disease 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 by high fever, headache and dizziness Variola - Smallpox Venesection - Bleeding Viper's dance - St. Vitus dance Yellowjacket - Yellow fever **************Need a job? 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What would have been "The Fever" as noted on my 3rd Great Grandfathers death certificate in 1861.. ----- Original Message ----- From: <SONAVAN@aol.com> To: <NYCHEMUN-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: <Brown-L@rootsweb.com>; <NYSARATO-L@rootsweb.com>; <NYCAYUGA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:55 PM Subject: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses > > > > > Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses > > > > > Ablepsy - Blindness > Ague - Malarial fever > American plague - Yellow fever > Anasarca - Generalized massive edema > Aphonia - Laryngitis > Aphtha - Infant disease "thrush" > Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke > Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > Asphycsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size > Bad blood - Syphilis > Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and > bile > emesis > Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease > Black plague - Bubonic plague > Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin > lesions and high mortality rate > 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 > Bone shave - Sciatica > Brain fever - Meningitis > Breakbone - Dengue fever > Bright's disease - Chronic disease of kidneys > Bronze John - Yellow fever > Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling > Cachexy - Malnutrition > Cacogastric - Upset stomach > Cacospysy - Irregular pulse > Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy > Camp fever - Typhus; aka camp diarrhea > Canine madness - Rabies; hydrophobia > Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips; or herpes simplex > Catalepsy - Seizures/trances > Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum; or lead poisoning > Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold > Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child > 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, > elevated temperature, etc.; could also be appendicitis > Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder > Cholelithiasis - Gall stones > Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing > Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills > Colic - Abdominal pain and cramping > Congestive chills - Malaria > Consumption - Tuberculosis > Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs > Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea > Congestive fever - Malaria > Corruption - Infection > Coryza - A cold > Costiveness - Constipation > Cramp colic - Appendicitis > Crop sickness - Overextended stomach > Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat > Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood > Cynanche - Diseases of throat > Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder > 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 - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss > Diary fever - A fever that lasts more than one day > Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat > Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and > throat and anorexia > Dock fever - Yellow fever > Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease > Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis > Dry bellyache - Lead poisoning > Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition > Dysentery - Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous and > blood > Dysorexy - Reduced appetite > Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms > Dysury - Difficulty in urination > Eclampsy - Symptoms fo 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 - Swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness > Enteric fever - Typhoid fever > Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels > Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines > Epitaxis - Nose bleed > Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease due to Streptococci with vesiculas > 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 - Anemia > Grippe/grip - Influenza-like symptoms > Grocer's itch - Skin disease cause 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 > Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever > Hematemesis - Vomiting blood > Hematuria - Bloody urine > Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body > Hip gout - Osteomylitis > Horrors - Delirium tremers > Hydrocephalus - - Enlarged head; water on the brain > Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy > Hydrophobia - Rabies > Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest > Hypertrophic - Enlargement of an organ, like the heart > 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 cause by blockage of intestines > King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands > Kruchhusten - Whooping cough > Lagrippe - Influenza > Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck > and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in eight (8) days > Long sickness - Tuberculosis > Lues disease - Syphilis > Lues venera - Venereal disease > Lumbago - Back pain > Lung fever - Pneumonia > Lung sickness - Tuberculosis > Lying in - Time of delivery of an infant > Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria > Mania - Insanity > Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of the body, like malnutrition > Membranous croup - Diphtheria > Meningitis - Inflations 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 > Nephritis - 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 > Paroxysm - Convulsion > Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters > Pericarditis - Inflammation of the heart > Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the lungs > Peritonitis - Inflammation of the abdominal area > Petechial fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting > Phthiriasis - 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 > Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of the 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) ??? > Rubeola - German measles > Sanguineous crust - Scab > Scarlatina - Scarlet fever > Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by a 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 the skin > Septicemia - Blood poisoning > Shakes - Delirium tremens > Shaking - Chills; ague > Ship fever - Typhus > Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure > Sloes - Milk sickness > Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters > Softing of brain - Result of stroke or hemmorhage 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 a 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 being bright red in appearance > St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurance of rapid complex jerking movements > performed involuntarily > Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth > Stranger's fever - Yellow fever > Strangery - Rupture > 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 the UK in > the > 15th century > Tetanus - Infectious disease 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 by high fever, headache and > dizziness > Variola - Smallpox > Venesection - Bleeding > Viper's dance - St. Vitus dance > Yellowjacket - Yellow fever > > > **************Need a job? 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My great grandfather died from complications of the measles in May 1887.  He and the family lived in Wolfe Co., Ky at that  time. There may have been an epidemic during this time  period as he was a young man in his twenties. Carolyn Lamb Decendant of Valentine Brown of West Virginia. ________________________________ From: "jimbrown848@bellsouth.net" <jimbrown848@bellsouth.net> To: brown@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 4:39:21 PM Subject: Re: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses Bob, Possibly scarlet fever.  I had grandparents that died of that around 1890.  Were buried in unmarked graves so that no one would know where they were.  Was very contagious.  Consumption was apparently referred to as TB.  Anyway, hope this helps. Jim Brown,Jr. Gastonia -------------- Original message from "Bob Smith" <rsmith1173@woh.rr.com>: -------------- > What would have been "The Fever" as noted on my 3rd Great Grandfathers death > certificate in 1861.. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Cc: ; ; > > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:55 PM > Subject: [BROWN] Early Terminology of Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > > > Terminology and Meanings of Early Illnesses > > > > > > > > > > Ablepsy - Blindness > > Ague - Malarial fever > > American plague - Yellow fever > > Anasarca - Generalized massive edema > > Aphonia - Laryngitis > > Aphtha - Infant disease "thrush" > > Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke > > Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Asphycsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > > Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size > > Bad blood - Syphilis > > Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and > > bile > > emesis > > Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease > > Black plague - Bubonic plague > > Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin > > lesions and high mortality rate > > 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 > > Bone shave - Sciatica > > Brain fever - Meningitis > > Breakbone - Dengue fever > > Bright's disease - Chronic disease of kidneys > > Bronze John - Yellow fever > > Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling > > Cachexy - Malnutrition > > Cacogastric - Upset stomach > > Cacospysy - Irregular pulse > > Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy > > Camp fever - Typhus; aka camp diarrhea > > Canine madness - Rabies; hydrophobia > > Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips; or herpes simplex > > Catalepsy - Seizures/trances > > Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > > Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum; or lead poisoning > > Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold > > Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child > > 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, > > elevated temperature, etc.; could also be appendicitis > > Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder > > Cholelithiasis - Gall stones > > Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing > > Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills > > Colic - Abdominal pain and cramping > > Congestive chills - Malaria > > Consumption - Tuberculosis > > Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs > > Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea > > Congestive fever - Malaria > > Corruption - Infection > > Coryza - A cold > > Costiveness - Constipation > > Cramp colic - Appendicitis > > Crop sickness - Overextended stomach > > Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat > > Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood > > Cynanche - Diseases of throat > > Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder > > 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 - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss > > Diary fever - A fever that lasts more than one day > > Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat > > Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and > > throat and anorexia > > Dock fever - Yellow fever > > Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease > > Dropsy of the brain - Encephalitis > > Dry bellyache - Lead poisoning > > Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition > > Dysentery - Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous and > > blood > > Dysorexy - Reduced appetite > > Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms > > Dysury - Difficulty in urination > > Eclampsy - Symptoms fo 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 - Swelling of the brain; aka sleeping sickness > > Enteric fever - Typhoid fever > > Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels > > Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines > > Epitaxis - Nose bleed > > Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease due to Streptococci with vesiculas > > 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 - Anemia > > Grippe/grip - Influenza-like symptoms > > Grocer's itch - Skin disease cause 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 > > Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever > > Hematemesis - Vomiting blood > > Hematuria - Bloody urine > > Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of the body > > Hip gout - Osteomylitis > > Horrors - Delirium tremers > > Hydrocephalus - - Enlarged head; water on the brain > > Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy > > Hydrophobia - Rabies > > Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest > > Hypertrophic - Enlargement of an organ, like the heart > > 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 cause by blockage of intestines > > King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands > > Kruchhusten - Whooping cough > > Lagrippe - Influenza > > Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck > > and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in eight (8) days > > Long sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lues disease - Syphilis > > Lues venera - Venereal disease > > Lumbago - Back pain > > Lung fever - Pneumonia > > Lung sickness - Tuberculosis > > Lying in - Time of delivery of an infant > > Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria > > Mania - Insanity > > Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of the body, like malnutrition > > Membranous croup - Diphtheria > > Meningitis - Inflations 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 > > Nephritis - 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 > > Paroxysm - Convulsion > > Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters > > Pericarditis - Inflammation of the heart > > Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the lungs > > Peritonitis - Inflammation of the abdominal area > > Petechial fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting > > Phthiriasis - 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 > > Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of the 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) ??? > > Rubeola - German measles > > Sanguineous crust - Scab > > Scarlatina - Scarlet fever > > Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by a 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 the skin > > Septicemia - Blood poisoning > > Shakes - Delirium tremens > > Shaking - Chills; ague > > Ship fever - Typhus > > Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure > > Sloes - Milk sickness > > Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters > > Softing of brain - Result of stroke or hemmorhage 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 a 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 being bright red in appearance > > St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurance of rapid complex jerking movements > > performed involuntarily > > Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth > > Stranger's fever - Yellow fever > > Strangery - Rupture > > 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 the UK in > > the > > 15th century > > Tetanus - Infectious disease 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 by high fever, headache and > > dizziness > > Variola - Smallpox > > Venesection - Bleeding > > Viper's dance - St. Vitus dance > > Yellowjacket - Yellow fever > > > > > > **************Need a job? 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