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Definitions of Some Diseases or Causes of Death

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 Black 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, 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 - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing Colic - An abdominal pain and cramping Congestive Chills - Malaria 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 - Inflation of the bowels Epitaxis - Nose bleed Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions Extravasted Blood - Ruptureof 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 - 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 Hydrothorax - 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 - Inflation 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 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 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 - 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

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