DEFINITION
| Apoplexy (sometimes spelled Appoplexy) | Paralysis from stroke
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| Bilious Fever | Typhoid, Malaria or Hepatitis
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| Biliousness | Jaundice from Liver Disease
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| Black Plague or Death | Bubonic Plague
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| Black Fever | Acute infection with high fever and red skin lesions
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| Black Vomit | Vomiting blood, black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever
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| Black Water Fever | Dark urine with high temperature
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| Bladder in Throat | Diphtheria
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| Blood Poisoning | Baterial infection or Septicemia
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| Bloddy Flux | Bloody stools
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| Bloody Sweat | Sweating sickness
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| Brain Fever | Meningitis
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| Bright's Disease | Chronic inflammatory Disease of Kidneys
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| Bronze John | Yellow fever
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| Bule | Boil, tumor or swelling
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| Camp Fever | Typhus or Camp diarrhea
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| Canine Madness | Rabies
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| Canker | Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
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| Cerebritis | Inflammation of Cerebrum or Lead Poisoning
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| Child Bed Fever | Infection following child birth
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| Chin Cough | Whooping cough
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| Cholera | Acute, severe, contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing
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| Chorea | Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing
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| Cold Plague | Ague (fever) characterized by chillls
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| Colic | An abdominal pain and cramping
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| Congestive Chills | Malaria
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| Consumption | Tuberculosis
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| Congestive Chills | Malaria with diarrhea
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| Congestive Fever | Malaria
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| Corruption | Infection
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| Cramp Colic | Appendicitis
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| Croup | Laryngitis, diphtheria or sore throat
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| Cystitis | Inflammation of the bladder
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| Day Fever | Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness
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| Decrepitude | Feebleness from old age
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| Dentition | Cutting of teeth
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| Diary Fever | A fever that lasts one day
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| Dock Fever | Yellow fever
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| Dropsy | Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease
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| Dropsy of the Brain | Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain)
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| Dry Bellyache | Lead poisoning
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| Edema of Lungs | Congestive heart failure also a form of dropsy
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| Enteric Fever | Typhoid fever
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| Falling Sickness | Epilepsy
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| Fatty Liver | Cirrhosis of liver
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| Fits | Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity - epilespy
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| Flux | An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea
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| French Pox | Syphilis or great pox
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| Gathering | A colluction of pus
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| Green Fever | Anemia
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| Grippe or Grip | Influenza like symptoms
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| Grocer's Itch | Skin disease caused by mites in suger or flour
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| Heart Sickness | Conditioned caused by loss of salt from body
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| King's Evil | Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands
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| Horrors | Delirium
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| Hydrophobia | Rabies
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| Impetigo (alo called Summer Sores) | A contagious skin disease marked by pustules (blisters)
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| Jaundice | Condition caused by blockage of intestines
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| Lockjaw | Tentanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw
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| Lagripp or Lagrippe | Influenza
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| Long Sickness or Lung Sickness | Tuberculosis
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| Lung Fever | Pneumonia
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| Malignant Sore Throat | Diphteria
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| Mania | Insanity
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| Meningitis | Inflammations of brain or spinal cord
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| Milk Leg | Swelling of the leg after the birth of a child
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| Nephrites | Inflammation of kidneys
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| Palsy | Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles
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| Puerperal exhaustion | Death from child birth
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| Phthisis | Chronic wasting away (Tuberculosis)
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| Plague | An acute febrile (feverish), highly infectious disease
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| Pleurisy | Pains in the chest area
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| Pott's Disease | Tuberculosis of spine
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| Puerperal Exhaustion | Death from child birth
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| Puking Fever | Milk sickness
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| Putrid Fever | Diphtheria
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| Quinsy | Tonsillitis
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| Rheumatism | A disorder associated with pain in joints
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| Rickets | Disease of skeletal system
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| Rose Cold | Hay fever or nasal sysmptoms of an allergy
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| Rubella | German measles, hard measles, red measles
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| Scarlatina | Scarlet fever
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| Scarlet Fever | A disease with a red rash
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| Scarlet Rash | Roseola
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| Sciatica | Rheumatism in the hips
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| Screws | Rheumatism
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| Scrum Pox | Summer sores, impetigo
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| Scurvy | Lack of Vitamin C
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| Ship Fever | Typhus
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| Sloes | Milk sickness
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| Small Pox | Contagious disease with fever and blisters
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| Sore Throat Distemper | Diphtheria or quinsy
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| Spanish Influenza | Epidemic influenza
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| Spotted Fever | Either typhus or meningitis
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| St. Vitas Dance (also known as Viper's Dance) | Involuntary jerking movements
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| Stranger's Fever | Yellow fever
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| Swamp Sickness | Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
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| Tetanus | Infectious fever with high fever, headache and dizziness
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| Thrombosis | Blood clot inside blood vessel
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| Thrush | Red spots in the mouth
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| Tick Fever | Rocky mountain spotted fever
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| Trench Mouth | Ulcers along gum line, caused by poor nutrition and hygiene
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| Typhus | A severe infectious disease caused by microorganisms of the genus Rickettsia, and marked by severe headache, high fever, delirium and red rash
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| Water on Brain | Enlarged head
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| White Swelling | Tuberculosis of the bone
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| Winter Fever | Pneumonia
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| Womb Fever | Infection of the uterus
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| Worm Fit | Convulsions associated with teething or from worms
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| Yellow Ganders | Hepatitis
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| Yellow Jacket | Yellow fever
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