Hello Everyone; Below is a list of Archaic and Unusual Medical Terms. Would appreciate any and all remedies to these and other medical problems faced by people in the 1800's. Thank You. Gary A. Wilhoite Archaic and Unusual Medical Terms AFFECTION: A general term indicating a disease or ailment. ANASARCA: Generalized edema or dropsy. APOPLEXY: Sudden loss, more or less complete, of consciousness and voluntary motion, without the circulation or breathing being suspended. It is produced by pressure on the brain. CATARRH: Inflamation of mucous membrane, especially of the nose or throat. CHILLBLAINS: Painful swelling or inflamed sore on the feet or hands, caused by exposure to cold. CHOLERA MORBUS: A disease characterized by vomiting,purging,violent gripings, coldness and cramps of the extremities. This was probably appendicitis. COLA: Apparently an inflamation of the colon. CONSUMPTION: Tuberculosis. CYANOSIS: Bluish coloration of the skin due to lack of oxygen. DENTITION: Teething. DROPSY: An accumulation of serum or watery fluid in cavities or tissues of the body. DYSPEPSIA: Indigestion or heartburn. ERYSIPELAS: An acute infectious disease of the skin or mucous membranes, also know as St. Anthony's fire. GRAVEL: Kidney stone or stone in the bladder. FLUX: Dysentery, also known as bloody flux. HYDROCELE: A collection of watery fluid in a cavity of the body, especially in the scrotum or along the spermatic cord. INANITION: Exhaustion from the lack of food or inability to absorb and digest food. INFORMATION OF____: Inflamation. JANDERS: Jaundice. LOCKJAW: Tetanus. MARASMUS: Atrophy; progressive emaciation. NEURALGIA: Pain in the nerve. In late 19th century the term was used quite freguently, and apparently in many cases for distress that had little to do with the nervous system. For example, thee was "neuralgia of the heart" which, judging from the symtoms, was either heart attack or angina. "Neuralgia of the stomach" seems to be what we call heartburn. "Neuralgia of the head" was simply a headache. PARTURITION: Labor and chilbirth. PHTHISIS: A wasting away of the body, particularly from tuberculosis. PILES: Hemorrhoids. PROLAPSIS: The falling or slipping out of place of an organ. PUTRID: General infection of the mouth or throat area. REMITTING FEVER: Symtoms suggesting malaria. RISING: A morbid swelling. ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE: See "erysipelas". SCARLETINA: Scarlet fever. SCROFULA: Enlargement of one of the glands, particularly of the neck; goiter was considered scrofula. SPINA BITHIDA: Birth defect involving spinal column. TABES MESENTERICA: A type of tuberculosis. TERTIARY: A stage in the developement of syphilis. THRUSH: Ulcerative sore throat. TRICHINIA: Apparently trichinosis. TRISMUS NASCENTIUM: Tetanus. VARICOCELE: A varicose vein in the scrotum.