Reference | Old Disease Names
I know I’ve looked at old mortality schedules and had to scratch my head and go look up what certain terms were. I thought it might be useful to start compiling a list here. (Who knows, this may become a page sometime…) Not a complete list certainly - but it might be a handy reference
Abasia - inability to walk or stand
Abdominal Angina - sudden severe recurring stomach pain in the elderly. Could mean diverticulitis
Ablepsy - Blindness
Abortus Fever - Brucellosis
Affrighted - Frightened to death - likely stress induced stroke or heart attack
Ague - Intermittent fever - commonly associated with Malaria
American Plague - Yellow Fever
Anthracosis - Lung disease from inhalation of coal dust
Apoplexy - paralysis from stroke
Ataxia - inability to coordinate movement
Bad blood - syphillis
brain fever - meningitis
Camp diarrhea - Thyphoid fever
Canine Madness - rabies
Carcinoma - cancer
catalepsy - seizures/trances
dropsy - congestive heart failure (swelling from fluid buildup)
Edema - swelling of the tissues
Falling sickness - epilepsy
French pox - venereal disease
Galloping consumption - pulmonary tuberculosis
Gout - painful inflammation - brought on by buildup of uric acid in the tissue
hydrophobia - rabies
ischaema - lack of sufficient blood supply to an organ
Lung fever - pnuemonia
Malignant sore throat - diphtheria
Morbilli - measles
Mormal - gangrene
Necrosis - death of tissue
Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration
Palsy - paralysis with lack of muscle control
Pertussis - whooping cough
podagra - gout
pox - siphillis
Puerperal Exhaustion - death due to childbirth
quinsy - tonsilitis
rheumatism - pain in joints
rubeola - german measles
sciatica - rhuematism in the hips
scirrhus - cancerous tumors
scotomy - dizziness, nausea - dimness of sight
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septicemia - blood poisoning
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