From another list: >Outdated medical terminology, which has changed over time, which you might >find in genealogical records [from a Genealogy.Com webpage.] > > > Outdated Term Current Term >apoplexy stroke > >bad blood syphilis > >blood poisoning septicemia (overwhelming > bacterial infection) > >Bright's disease glomerulonephritis (serious > kidney disease) > >consumption tuberculosis, pulmonary > >cretinism hypothyroidism, congenital > >dropsy congestive heart failure > >fatty liver cirrhosis > >glandular fever mononucleosis > >grippe influenza (flu) killed lots of > people in 1918 > >jail fever typhus > >lock jaw tetanus > >lung fever pneumonia > >lung sickness tuberculosis > >plague/black death Bubonic plague > >podagra gout > >Pott's disease tuberculosis of the spinal > vertebrae > >quinsy streptococcal tonsillitis > >scrofula tuberculosis of the neck > lymph nodes > >toxemia of pregnancy eclampsia (high blood pressure > & seizures)