COLONIAL DISEASES & CURES http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/disease.html Examples: ABLEPSIA - blindness AGLUTITION - inability to swallow, frequently found on death certificates AGUE - recurring fever and chills of of malaria AGUE-CAKE - a hard tumor or swelling on the left side of the abdomen, lower than the false rib, resulting from enlargement of the spleen or liver, and supposed to be the effect of intermitting fevers ANCOME - [whitlow] an ulcerous swelling, a boil APOPLEXY - stroke COLONIAL OCCUPATIONS http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/occupation.html Our early American colonists did not have quite the same employment opportunities as we do today. There were no TV producers, car salesmen, rocket scientists, and certainly no computer programmers. The first emigrants to America had occupations concerned primarily with simple, basic survival in the New World. They were, for the most part, skilled laborers, who could make things most of us now only dabble in as hobbies. Examples: ACATER: supplied food provisions, such as a ships chandler ACCIPITRARY a falconer or keeper and tamer of hawks ACCOMPANT: an accountant ACCOUCHEUR / ACCOUCHEUS: one who assisted women in childbirth ACCOUTREMENT MAKER / ACCOUTRE: a supplier of military accessories ACRE-MAN / ACKERMAN: a man who ploughed or cultivated the land Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com “We have not inherited the world from our forefathers .. we have borrowed it from our children.” ….. Kashmiri Proverb List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus" .