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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