Have You Heard Of Pellagra ? Thank You Mary Ann leatherm@iserv.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Baker" <ndnblu@texoma.net> To: <TXFANNIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:12 AM Subject: [TXFANNIN-L] Diseases of the past > Hello list, > I got this information from another list and thought it was interesting enough to pass on to you. > Linda > > > 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 > > Devil's Grip - Pleurisy / bronchitis > > 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 > > 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 - Polio > > Potter'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 > > > > > > > > ==== TXFANNIN Mailing List ==== > Search List Archives by keyword > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >