> >>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 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 infant >>Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria >>Mania - Insanity >>Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of 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 >>Nepritis - 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. >>It was >>listed as "Cause of death" >>Paroxysm - Convulsion >>Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters >>Pericarditis - Inflammation of heart >>Peripneumonia - Inflammation of lungs >>Peritonotis - Inflammation of abdominal area >>Petechial Fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting >>Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to child birth >>Phthiriasis - Lice infestation >>Phthisis - 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 - PolioPotter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis >>Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of 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 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 skin >>Septicemia - Blood poisoning >>Shakes - Delirium tremens >>Shaking - Chills, ague >>Shingles - Viral disease with skin blisters >>Ship fever - Typhus >>Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure >>Sloes - Milk sickness >>Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters >>Softening of brain - Result of stroke or hemorrhage 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 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 are bright red in appearance >>St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking >>movements >>performed involuntary >>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 UK in >>15th >>century >>Tetanus - Infectious fever 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 high fever, headache, >>and >>dizziness >>Variola - Smallpox >>Venesection - Bleeding >>Viper's dance - St. Vitus Dance >>Water on brain - Enlarged head >>White swelling - Tuberculosis of the bone >>Winter fever - Pneumonia >>Womb fever - Infection of the uterus. >>Worm fit - Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated >> >>temperature or diarrhea >>Yellowjacket - Yellow fever. >> >> >> >> >