The 11 Nov 1991 issue of ANTIQUE WEEK contained an article by John V. Heisey entitled "Are Strange Diseases of Ancestors Interpreted in 20th Century Terms?" Based on this article plus a list of medical terms from the Prodigy Genealogy Bulletin Board and another list from the Fall 1986 Appleland Bulletin, the following combined list was composed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --These should all be separated with a -, I won't bother to do them all as I know that you get my drift... Ablepsia - Blindness African Consumption - Tuberculosis Ansasrca - Generalized Dropsy Ague - recurring fever & chills of Malaria Angina Pectoris Paroxysms with severe pain in lower chest, feeling of suffocation Apoplexy Stroke Bethlehemite Mentally ill person Bilious fever Fever, liver disorder the cause Black Death typhus Black Lung From breathing coal dust Black Pox Smallpox Bloody Flux Dysentery Brain Fever Sun stroke Bright's Disease Kidney Inflammation Bronze John Yellow Fever Camp Fever Typhus Canine Madness Hydrophobia (Rabies) Catarrh (1) Inflammation of Mucous Membrane or (2) Cerebral Hemorrhage (Apoplexy) Cerebritis Inflammation of the Brain Childbed Fever Infection following Childbirth Chin Cough Whooping cough Chorea St. Vitus Dance Commotion Concussion Congestive Chill Accumulation of the blood in the blood vessels Congestive Fever Malaria Consuption Pulmonary Tuberculosis Corruption Infection Coryza Cold Cramp Colic Appendicitis Debilitas Weakness of the Body Devonshire Colic Erposure to lead Dropsy Edema caused by kidney or heart disease Dysentery Inflammation of intestinal mucous membrane Dyspepsia Acid Indigestion Enteric Fever Typhoid Fever Enteritis Intestinal inflammation Extravasated blood Ruptured blood vessel Falling Sickness Epilepsy Fits Convulsions Flus of Humour Circulation French Disease Syphilis French Pox Venereal Disease Galloping Consumption Pulmonary Tuberculosis Green Sickness Anemia Grippe Influenza Hallucination Delirium Hip Gout Osteomyelitis Ictus Solis Sunstroke Jail Fever Typhus King's Evil Scrofula; Swelling of the neck glands La Grippe Flu Lues Venera Venereal Disease Lumbago Pain in lower back, hip, or thigh: Sciatica Lung fever Pneumonia Lung Sickness Tuberculosis Mania Insanity Mirasmus Emaciation Milk Leg inflammation of leg Morbus Disease Mormal Gangrene Mortification Infection Nostalgia Homesickness Painter's Colic Exposure to lead Phthisis Pulmonary Consumption Pleurisy Inflammation of Lung Pox Syphilis Puerperal Fever Infection following childbirth Putrid Fever Diphtheria Quinsey Tonsillitis Remitting Fever Malaria Sanguinous Crust Scab Scorbutus Lack of Vitamin C Screws Rheumatism Scrofula see King's Evil Senile Gangrene Hardening of the Arteries Ship's Fever Typhus Sore Throat Distemper Quinsey St. Anthony's Fire Skin Infection St. Vitus' Dance Nervous Twitches Sloes Milk Sickness Ulcus Ulcer Venesection Bleeding Whitlow Boil Winter Fever Pneumonia Yellow Jacket Yellow Fever