Folks, This was posted to the Galloway list, and I thought you might find it helpful when looking at death certs. Philip >Some old names for illnesses found in old medical records or listed as >causes of death on old death certificates or in old family bibles. > >Ablepsy - Blindness > >Ague - Malarial Fever > >American plague - Yellow fever > >Anasarca - Generalized massive edema > >Aphonia - Laryngitis > >Aphtha - The infant disease "thrush" > >Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke > >Asphycsia/Asphicsia - 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 or death - 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 inflammatory 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 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 - An 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 one day > >Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat > >Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and >throat, 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 colon with frequent passage of mucous and >blood > >Dysorexy - Reduced appetite > >Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms > >Dysury - Difficulty in urination > >Eclampsy - Symptoms of 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 brain; aka sleeping sickness > >Enteric fever - Typhoid fever > >Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines > >Enteritis - Inflations of the bowels > >Epitaxis - Nose bleed > >Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular >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 / sickness - Anemia > >Grippe/grip - Influenza like symptoms > >Grocer's itch - Skin disease caused 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. >Coma and death result if not reversed > >Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever > >Hematemesis - Vomiting blood > >Hematuria - Bloody urine > >Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of body > >Hip gout - Osteomylitis > >Horrors - Delirium tremens > >Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain > >Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy > >Hydrophobia - Rabies > >Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest > >Hypertrophic - Enlargement of 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 caused 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 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.