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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