Terminology

Meaning

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

Block 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 Inflammation 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

Congestion

Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs

Congestive chills

Malaria with diarrhea

Congestive fever

Malaria

Congestive chills

Malaria

Consumption

Tuberculosis

Corruption

Infection

Coryza

A cold

Costiveness

Constipation

Cramp colic

Appendicitis

Crop sickness

Overextended stomach

Cyanosis

Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood

Cynanche

Disease of throat

Cystitis

Inflammation of the bladder

Day fever

Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness

Debility

Lock 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

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

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