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| Abscess |
A localized collection of pus buried in tissues, organs, or confined |
| spaces of the body, often accompanied by swelling and |
| inflammation and frequently caused by bacteria. The brain, lung, or |
| kidney (for instance) could be involved. See boil. |
| Addison's Disease |
A disease characterized by severe weakness, low blood pressure, |
| and a bronzed coloration of the skin, due to decreased secretion of |
| cortisol from the adrenal gland. Dr. Thomas Addison (1793-1860), |
| born near Newcastle, England, described the disease in 1855. |
| Synonyms: Morbus addisonii, bronzed skin disease. |
| Ague |
Malarial or intermittent fever characterized by paroxysms (stages of |
| chills, fever, and sweating at regularly recurring times) and |
| followed by an interval or intermission whose length determines the |
| epithets: quotidian, tertian, quartan, and quintan ague (defined in the |
| text). Popularly, the disease was known as "fever and ague," "chill |
| fever," "the shakes," and by names expressive of the locality in which |
| it was prevalent - such as, "swamp fever" (in Louisiana), "Panama |
| fever," and "Chagres fever." |
| Ague-cake |
A form of enlargement of the spleen, resulting from the action of |
| American Plague |
Yellow Fever |
| Anasarca |
Generalized massive edema |
| Aphtha |
The infant disease, thrush |
| Aphthous Stomatitis |
See canker. |
| Apoplexy |
Paralysis due to stroke |
| Asphycsia/Asphicsia |
Cyanotic and lack of oxygen |
| Atrophy |
Wasting away or diminishing in size |
B
| Bilious Fever |
Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis |
| Biliousness |
Jaundice associated with liver disease |
| Black Death |
Bubonic Plague |
| Black Fever |
Acute infection with high temperature, dark red skin lesions, and a |
| Black Plague or Black |
Bubonic Plague |
| 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 |
| Blood Poisoning |
Bacterial infection, septicemia |
| Bloody Flux |
Bloody stools |
| Bloody Sweat |
Sweating sickness |
| Boil |
An abscess of skin or painful, circumscribed inflammation of the |
| skin or a hair follicle, having a dead, pus-forming inner core, usually |
| caused by a staphylococcal infection. Synonym: furuncle. |
| Bright's Disease |
Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys |
| Bronchial Asthma |
A paroxysmal, often allergic disorder of breathing, characterized by |
| spasm of the bronchial tubes of the lungs, wheezing, and difficulty |
| in breathing air outward - often accompanied by coughing and a |
| feeling of tightness in the chest. In the nineteenth century the direct |
| causes were thought to be dust, vegetable irritants, chemical vapors, |
| animal emanations, climatic influences, and bronchial inflammation |
| - all of which were reasonable guesses. The indirect causes were |
| thought to be transmissions by the nervous system or by the blood |
| from gout, syphilis, skin disease, renal disease, or heredity. Only |
| the latter cause was a reasonable assumption. |
| Bronzed Skin Disease |
See Addison’s Disease |
| Bule |
Boil, tumor or swelling |
C
| Cacogastric |
Upset stomach |
| Cacospysy |
Irregular pulse |
| Caduceus |
Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy |
| Camp Fever |
Typhus, Camp Diarrhea |
| Cancer |
A malignant and invasive growth or tumor (especially tissue that |
| covers a surface or lines a cavity), tending to recur after excision |
| and to spread to other sites. In the nineteenth century, physicians |
| noted that cancerous tumors tended to ulcerate, grew constantly, |
| and progressed to a fatal end and that there was scarcely a tissue |
| they would not invade. Synonyms: malignant growth, carcinoma. |
| Cancrum Otis |
A severe, destructive, eroding ulcer of the cheek and lip, rapidly |
| proceeding to sloughing. In the last century it was seen in delicate, |
| ill-fed, ill-tended children between the ages of two and five. The |
| disease was the result of poor hygiene acting upon a debilitated |
| system. It commonly followed one of the eruptive fevers and was |
| often fatal. The destructive disease could, in a few days, lead to |
| gangrene of the lips, cheeks, tonsils, palate, tongue, and even half |
| the face; teeth would fall from their sockets, and a horribly fetid |
| saliva flowed from the parts. Synonyms: canker, water canker, |
| noma, gangrenous stomatitis, gangrenous ulceration of the mouth. |
| Canine Madness |
Rabies, Hydrophobia |
| Canker |
Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex |
| Catalepsy |
Seizures, Trances |
| Catarrh |
Inflammation of a mucous membrane, especially of the air passages |
| of the head and throat, with a free discharge. It is characterized by |
| cough, thirst, lassitude, fever, watery eyes, and increased secretions |
| of mucus from the air passages. Bronchial catarrh was bronchitis; |
| suffocative catarrh was croup; urethral catarrh was gleet; vaginal |
| catarrh was leukorrhea; epidemic catarrh was the same as influenza. |
| 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 |
| Childbirth |
A cause given for many female deaths of the century. Almost all |
| babies were born in homes and usually were delivered by a family |
| member or a midwife; thus infection and lack of medical skill were |
| often the actual causes of death. |
| Chin Cough |
Whooping Cough |
| Chlorosis |
Iron deficiency anemia |
| Cholecystitus |
Inflammation of the gall bladder |
| Cholelithiasis |
Gall stones |
| Cholera |
Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing |
| Cholera Morbus |
Nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. |
| Chorea |
Any of several diseases of the nervous system, characterized by |
| jerky movements that appear to be well coordinated but are |
| performed involuntarily, chiefly of the face and extremities. |
| Synonym: Saint Vitus' dance. |
| Chronic |
Persisting over a long period of time as opposed to acute or sudden. |
| This word was often the only one entered under "cause of death" in |
| the mortality schedules. The actual disease meant by the term is |
| Cold Plague |
Convulsions, contortions and dancing |
| Colic |
Abdominal pain and cramping |
| Congestion |
Collection of fluid in an organ, such as the lungs |
| Congestive Chills |
Malaria with diarrhea |
| Convulsions |
Severe contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary |
| muscular contractions of the extremities, trunk, and head. See |
| Cretinism |
Hypothyroidism, congential |
| 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 |
D
| 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 |
East African infectious fever |
| Dentition |
Cutting of teeth |
| Deplumation |
Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss |
| Diary Fever |
A fever that lasts one day |
| Diphtheria |
Acute infectious disease caused by toxigenic strains of the bacillus |
| Corynebacterium diphtheriae, acquired by contact with an infected |
| person or a carrier of the disease. It was usually confined to the |
| upper respiratory tract (throat) and characterized by the formation |
| of a tough membrane (false membrane) attached firmly to the |
| underlying tissue that would bleed if forcibly removed. In the |
| nineteenth century the disease was occasionally confused with |
| Distemper |
Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and |
| 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 |
E
| Eclampsia |
Form of toxemia (toxins or poisons in the blood) accompanying |
| pregnancy, characterized by albuminuria (protein in the urine), by |
| hypertension (high blood pressure), and by convulsions. In the last |
| century, the term was used for any form of convulsion. Edema. See |
| 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 |
| Effluvia |
Exhalations or emanations, applied especially to those of noxious |
| character. In the mid-nineteenth century, they were called "vapours" |
| and distinguished into the contagious effluvia, such as rubeolar |
| (measles); marsh effluvia, such as miasmata; and those arising from |
| animals or vegetables, such as odors. |
| Elephantiasis |
A form of leprosy |
| Emphysema, pulmonary |
A chronic, irreversible disease of the lungs, characterized by |
| abnormal enlargement of air spaces in the lungs and accompanied by |
| destruction of the tissue lining the walls of the air sacs. By 1900 |
| the condition was recognized as a chronic disease of the lungs |
| associated with marked dyspnea (shortness of breath), hacking |
| cough, defective aeration (oxygenation) of the blood, cyanosis (blue |
| color of facial skin), and a full and rounded or "barrel-shaped" |
| chest. This disease is now most commonly associated with tobacco |
| Encephalitis |
Swelling of brain, Sleeping Sickness |
| Enteric Fever |
Typhoid Fever |
| Enteritis |
Inflation of the bowels |
| Enterocolitis |
Inflammation of the intestines |
| Epilepsy |
Disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, |
| episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petittnal) or by severe |
| convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal). Synonyms: |
| Erysipelas |
Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular and |
| Extravasted Blood |
Rupture of a blood vessel |
F
| Falling Sickness |
Epilepsy |
| Fits |
Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity |
| Flux |
Excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea |
| Flux of Humour |
Circulation |
G
| Gangrene |
Death and decay of tissue in a part of the body - usually a limb - due |
| to injury, disease, or failure of blood supply. Synonym: |
| Gathering |
Collection of pus |
| Glandular Fever |
Mononucleosis |
| Gravel - |
Disease characterized by multiple small calculi (stones or |
| concretions of mineral salts) which are formed in the kidneys, |
| passed along the ureters to the bladder, and expelled with the urine. |
| Grippe/Grip |
Influenza-like symptoms |
| Grocer's Itch |
Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour |
H
| Heart Sickness |
Condition caused by loss of salt from body |
| Heat Stroke |
Elevated body temperature due to surrounding environmental |
| temperature. Body fails to perspire to reduce temperature. Coma |
| and death result if not reversed |
| Hectic Fever |
Daily recurring fever with profound sweating, chills, and flushed |
| appearance--often associated with pulmonary tuberculosis or septic |
| Hectical Complaint |
Recurrent fever |
| Hematemesis |
Vomiting blood |
| Hemiplegy |
Paralysis of one side of body |
| Hives |
Skin eruption of wheals (smooth, slightly elevated areas on the skin) |
| which is redder or paler than the surrounding skin. Often attended |
| by severe itching, it usually changes its size or shape or disappears |
| within a few hours. It is the dermal evidence of allergy. See the |
| discussion under croup; also called cynanche trachealis. In the mid- |
| nineteenth century, hives was a commonly given cause of death of |
| children three years and under. Because true hives does not kill, |
| croup was probably the actual cause of death in those children. |
| Hospital fever |
See typhus. |
| Hydrocephalus |
Enlarged head, water on the brain |
| Hydropericardium |
Heart dropsy |
| Hydrothroax |
Dropsy in chest |
| Hypertrophic |
Enlargement of organ, like the heart |
I
| Impetigo | Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules |
| Inanition | Physical condition resulting from lack of food |
| Intestinal colic | Abdominal pain due to improper diet |
| Impetigo |
Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules |
| Inanition |
Physical condition resulting from lack of food |
| Infantile Paralysis |
Polio |
| Infection |
The affection or contamination of a person, organ, or wound with |
| invading, multiplying, disease - producing germs - such as bacteria, |
| rickettsiae, viruses, molds, yeasts, and protozoa. In the early part of |
| the last century, infections were thought to be the propagation of |
| disease by effluvia (see above) from patients crowded together. |
| "Miasms" were believed to be substances which could not be seen in |
| any form - emanations not apparent to the senses. Such miasms |
| were understood to act by infection. |
| Inflammation |
Redness, swelling, pain, tenderness, heat, and disturbed function of |
| an area of the body, especially as a reaction of tissue to injurious |
| agents. This mechanism serves as a localized and protective |
| response to injury. The word ending -itis denotes inflammation on |
| the part indicated by the word stem to which it is attached - that is, |
| appendicitis, pleuritis, etc. Microscopically, it involves a complex |
| series of events, including enlargement of the sizes of blood |
| vessels; discharge of fluids, including plasma proteins; and |
| migration of leukocytes (white blood cells) into the inflammatory |
| focus. In the last century, cause of death often was listed as |
| inflammation of a body organ - such as, brain or lung - but this was |
| purely a descriptive term and is not helpful in identifying the actual |
| Intestinal Colic |
Abdominal pain due to improper diet |
| Intussusception |
Slipping of one part within another, as the prolapse of one part of |
| the intestine into the lumen of an immediately adjoining part. This |
| leads to obstruction and often must be relieved by surgery. |
| Synonym: introsusception. |
J
| Jail Fever |
Typhus, Camp Diarrhea |
| Jaundice |
Condition caused by blockage of intestines |
K
| King's Evil |
Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands |
| Kruchhusten |
Whooping cough |
L
| Laryngismus Stridulus |
Spasmodic croup |
| Lockjaw |
Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and |
| jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days |
| Long Sickness |
Tuberculosis |
| Lues Venera |
Venerial Disease |
| Lung Sickness |
Tuberculosis |
| Lying In |
Time of delivery of infant |
M
| Malignant Fever |
See typhus. |
| Malignant Sore Throat |
Diphtheria |
| Marasmus |
Progressive wasting away of body, malnutrition |
| Marasmus - |
Malnutrition occurring in infants and young children, caused by an |
| insufficient intake of calories or protein and characterized by |
| thinness, dry skin, poor muscle development, and irritability. In the |
| mid-nineteenth century, specific causes were associated with |
| specific ages: In infants under twelve months old, the causes were |
| believed to be unsuitable food, chronic vomiting, chronic diarrhea, |
| and inherited syphilis. Between one and three years, marasmus was |
| associated with rickets or cancer. After the age of three years, |
| caseous (cheeselike) enlargement of the mesenteric glands (located |
| in the peritoneal fold attaching the small intestine to the body wall) |
| became a given cause of wasting. (See tabes mesenterica.) After the |
| sixth year, chronic pulmonary tuberculosis appeared to be the major |
| cause. Marasmus is now considered to be related to kwashiorkor, a |
| severe protein deficiency. |
| 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 |
| Milk Leg |
Post partum thrombophlebitis |
| Milk Sick |
Poisoning resulting from the drinking of milk produced by a cow |
| who had eaten a plant known as white snake root |
| Milk Sickness |
Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds |
| Morbus |
Latin word for disease. In the last century, when applied to a |
| particular disease, morbus was associated with some qualifying |
| adjective or noun, indicating the nature or seat of such disease. |
| Examples: morbus cordis, heart disease; morbus caducus, epilepsy |
| Morphew |
Scurvy blisters on the body |
| Mortification |
Gangrene of necrotic tissue |
| Myelitis |
Inflammation of the spine |
| Myocarditis |
Inflammation of heart muscles |
N
| Necrosis |
Mortification of bones or tissue |
| Nephrosis |
Kidney degeneration |
| Nepritis |
Inflammation of kidneys |
| Nervous Prostration |
Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental |
| Neuralgia |
Described as discomfort, such as Headache was neuralgia in head |
P
| Palsy |
Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Pneumonia |
Inflammation of the lungs with congestion or consolidation caused |
| by viruses, bacteria, or physical and chemical agents. |
| Potter's Asthma |
Fibroid pthisis |
| Pott's Disease |
Tuberculosis of spine |
| Puerperal Exhaustion |
Death due to child birth |
| Puerperal Fever |
Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant |
| Puking Fever |
Milk sickness |
| Pus |
A yellow-white, more or less viscid substance found in abscesses |
| and sores, consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells |
| are formed and suspended by the process of inflammation. |
| Putrid Sore Throat |
Ulceration of an acute form, attacking the tonsils and rapidly |
| running into sloughing of the fauces (the cavity at the back of the |
| mouth, leading to the pharynx). |
Q
R
| Rheumatism |
Any disorder associated with pain in joints |
| Rickets |
Disease of skeletal system |
| Rose Cold |
Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy |
S
| Scarlatina |
Scarlet fever. A contagious febrile disease, caused by infection with |
| the bacteria group. A beta-hemolytic streptococci (which elaborate |
| a toxin with an affinity for red blood cells) and characterized by a |
| scarlet eruption, tonsillitis, and pharyngitis. |
| Scarlet Fever |
A disease characterized by red rash |
| Sciatica |
Rheumatism in the hips |
| Scirrhus |
Cancerous tumors |
| Scotomy |
Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight |
| Scrivener's Palsy |
Writer's cramp |
| 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; weakness, spongy gums, and hemorrhages under |
| Septic |
Infected, a condition of local or generalized invasion of the body by |
| disease causing microorganisms (germs) or their toxins. |
| Septicemia |
Blood poisoning |
| Shingles |
Viral disease with skin blisters |
| Siriasis |
Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| St. Anthony's Fire |
Also erysipelas, but named so because of affected skin areas are |
| St. Vitas Dance |
Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements |
| Stomatitis |
Inflammation of the mouth |
| Stranger's Fever |
Yellow fever |
| Sudor Anglicus |
Sweating sickness |
| Suffocation |
Stoppage of respiration. In the nineteenth century, suffocation was |
| reported as being accidental or homicidal. The accidents could be |
| by the impaction of pieces of food or other obstacles in the pharynx |
| or by the entry of foreign bodies into the larynx (as a seed, coin, or |
| food). Suffocation of newborn children by smothering under |
| bedclothes may have happened from carelessness as well as from |
| intent. However, the deaths also could have been due to SIDS |
| (sudden infant death syndrome), wherein the sudden and unexpected |
| death of an apparently healthy infant, while asleep, typically occurs |
| between the ages of three weeks and five months and is not |
| explained by careful postmortem studies. Synonyms of SIDS: crib |
| death and cot death. It was felt that victims of homicidal suffocation |
| 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 |
| Suppuration |
The production of pus. |
| Swamp Sickness |
Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis |
| Sweating Sickness |
Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century |
T
| Tabes Mesenterica |
Tuberculosis of the mesenteric glands in children, resulting in |
| digestive derangement and wasting of the body. |
| Teething |
Process which results in the eruption of the teeth. Nineteenth |
| century medical reports stated that infants were more prone to |
| disease at the time of teething. Symptoms were restlessness, |
| fretfulness, convulsions, diarrhea, and painful and swollen gums. |
| The latter could be relieved by lancing over the protruding tooth. |
| Often teething was reported as a cause of death in infants. Perhaps |
| they became susceptible to infections, especially if lancing was |
| performed without antisepsis. Another explanation of teething as a |
| cause of death is that infants were often weaned at the time of |
| teething; perhaps they then died from drinking contaminated milk, |
| leading to an infection, or from malnutrition if watered down milk |
| Tetanus |
Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness |
| Thrombosis |
Blood Vessel Clot |
| 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 |
| Trismus Nascentium or |
Form of tetanus seen only in infants, almost invariably in the first |
| five days of life, probably due to infection of the umbilical stump. |
| Tussis Convulsiva |
Whooping cough |
| Typhoid |
Usually introduced by food or drink. Symptoms include prolonged |
| hectic fever, malaise, transient characteristic skin rash (rose spots), |
| abdominal pain, enlarged spleen, slowness of heart rate, delirium, |
| and low white blood cell count. The name came from the disease's |
| similarity to typhus (see below). Synonym: enteric fever. |
| Typhoid fever |
An infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually occurring in the |
| summer months characterized by intestinal inflammation and |
| ulceration caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi |
| Typhus |
An acute, infectious disease caused by several micro-organism |
| species of Rickettsia (transmitted by lice and fleas) and |
| characterized by acute prostration, high fever, depression, delirium, |
| headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body. The |
| epidemic or classic form is louse borne; the endemic or murine is |
| flea borne. Synonyms: typhus fever, malignant fever (in the 1850s), |
| jail fever, hospital fever, ship fever, putrid fever, brain fever, bilious |
| fever, spotted fever, petechial fever, camp fever. |
| Typhus (Fred Rump) |
Does not equal typhoid, of course, but it is common to confuse the |
| two diseases due to the similarity in their names. The reservoir of |
| typhoid fever is humans. Mode of transmission of typhoid fever is |
| by food & water contaminated by feces and urine of patients and |
V
| Viper's Dance |
see St. Vitus Dance |
| Virus |
An ultramicroscopic, metabolically inert infectious agent that |
| replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, |
| plants, and animals. In the early 1800s virus meant poison, venom, |
W
| Water on Brain |
Enlarged head |
| White Swelling |
Tuberculosis of the bone |
| Womb Fever |
Uterus infection |
| Worm Fit |
Convulsions associated with teething, worms elevated temperature |
Y
| Yellow fever |
An acute, often fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates |
| caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes, especially Aledes |
| aegypti, and characterized by liver damage and jaundice, fever, and |
| protein in the urine. In 1900 Walter Reed and others in Panama |
| found that mosquitoes transmit the disease. Clinicians in. the late |
| nineteenth century recognized "specific yellow fever" as being |
| different from "malarious yellow fever." The latter supposedly was a |
| form of malaria with liver involvement but without urine |
| Yellowjacket |
Yellow Fever |
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