Ancestors of Forrest Gene PLUMSTEAD Sr

Name	What was it?

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Ablepsy	Blindness
Addison's Disease*	Symptoms are weakness, weight loss low blood pressure gastrointestinal distress as well as a brownish skin pigmentation.
Aglutition*	found in records of colonial deaths...the inability to swallow.
Ague	Malarial Fever
American plague	Yellow fever
Anasarca	General massive edema
Ancome*	an ulcerous swelling or boil.
Aphonia	Laryngitis
Aphtha	Infant disease "thrush"
Apoplexy	Paralysis from stroke
Asphycsia/Asphicsia	Cyanotic ( lack of oxygen )
Asthenia*	lack of movement...bed-fast
Atrophy	Wasting away

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Bad Blood	Syphilis
Bilious fever	Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or high temperature and bile emesis
Biliousness	Jaundice from liver disease
Black plague or death	Bubonic plague
Black fever	Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions, high mortality rate
Black Jaundice*	disease cause by contact with infected rat's urine.
Black Lung*	disease cause by inhaling of coal dust.
Black plague or Black Death*	Bubonic plague.
Black pox	Black Small pox
Black vomit	Vomiting ood black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever
Blackwater fever	Dark urine 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
Bronchial Asthma*	Breathing disorder with spasming of bronchial tubes wheezing and difficulty breathing outward. May also be accompanied by coughing and tightness in chest.
Bronze John	Yellow fever
Bule	Boil, tumor or swelling

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Cachexy	Malnutrition
Cacogastric	Upset stomach
Cacospysy	Irregular pulse
Caduceus	Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy
Camp fever	Typhus or Camp diarrhea
Canine madness	Rabies, hydrophobia
Canker	Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
Catalepsy	Seizures/trances
Catalepsy	Seizures or trances
Catarrhal	Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy
Cerebritis	Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
Chilblain	Swelling of extremities from exposure to cold
Child bed fever	Infection following child birth
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 characterized by chills
Colic	An abdominal pain and cramping
Commotion*	Concussion
Congestive chills	Malaria
Consumption	Tuberculosis
Congestion	Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs
Congestive chills	Malaria with diarrhea
Congestive fever	Malaria
Consumption*	Tuberculosis
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

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Day fever	Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness
Debility	Lack of movement, staying in bed
Decrepitude	Feebleness from old age
Delirium tremens	Hallucinations due to alcoholism
Dengue	Infectious fever endemic to East Africa
Dentition	Cutting of teeth
Deplumation	Tumor of the eyelids causing 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
Domestic Illness*	a "nice" way of saying mental breakdown, depression or other illness which renders its victim housebound and most times in need of medical support.
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

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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 or sleeping sickness
Enteric fever	Typhoid fever
Enterocolitis	Inflammation of the intestines
Enteritis	Inflations of the bowels
Epitaxis	Nose bleed
Erysipelas	Contagious skin disease, from Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions
Extravasted blood	Rupture of a blood vessel

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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

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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

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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

I	TOP
Impetigo	Contagious skin disease with by pustules
Inanition	Physical condition resulting from lack of food
Infantile paralysis	Polio
Intestinal colic	Abdominal pain from improper diet

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Jail fever	Typhus
Jaundice	Condition caused by blockage of intestines

K	TOP
King's evil	Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands
Kruchhusten	Whooping cough

L	TOP
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

M	TOP
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

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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

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Palsy	Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles.
Paroxysm	Convulsion
Pemphigus	Skin disease with watery blisters
Pericarditis	Inflammation of heart
Peripneumonia	Inflammation of lungs
Peritonotis	Inflammation of abdominal area
Petechial Fever	Fever with skin spotting
Puerperal exhaustion	Death from 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
Pott's disease	Tuberculosis of spine
Puerperal exhaustion	Death from childbirth
Puerperal fever	Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant
Puking fever	Milk sickness
Putrid fever	Diphtheria.

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Quinsy	Tonsillitis.

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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	Children's disease
Rubeola	German measles

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Sanguineous crust	Scab
Scarlatina	Scarlet fever
Scarlet fever	A disease with a 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 developing. Usually occurs in the young.
Scrumpox	Skin disease, impetigo
Scurvy	Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums, hemmoraging under skin.
Septicemia	Blood poisoning Shakes
Shaking	Chills, ague
Shingles	Viral disease with skin blisters
Ship fever	Typhus
Siriasis	Inflammation of the brain from exposure to the sun
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 with intestinal disorders and sore throat
St. Anthony's fire	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

T	TOP
Tetanus	Infectious fever with high fever, headache and dizziness
Thrombosis	Blood clot inside blood vessel Thrush
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 with high fever, headache, and dizziness

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Variola	Smallpox
Venesection	Bleeding
Viper's dance	St. Vitus Dance

W	TOP
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, high temperature or diarrhea

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Y	TOP
Yellowjacket	Yellow fever.

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