OLD TIME ILLNESSES
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| Glandular Fever | Mononucleosis | Necrosis | Mortifacation of bone or tissue | |
| Great Pox | Syphilitis | Nephrosis | Kidney degeneration | |
| Green Fever/Sickness | Anemia | Nephritis | Inflammation of the Kidneys | |
| Grippe/grip | Influenza like syptoms | Nervous Prostration | Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical or mental activity | |
| Grocer's Itch | Caused by mites in flour or sugar | Neuralgia | Discomfort/pain | |
| Heart Sickness | Condition caused by loss of salt from body | Nostalgia | Homesickness | |
| Heat Stroke | Failure of body to prespire due to excessive heat | Palsy | Paralysis or uncontrollrf movement of controlled muscles | |
| Hectical Complaint | Recurrent Fever | Paroxym | Convulsions | |
| Hematemesis | Vomiting blood | Pemphigus | Skin disease of watery blisters | |
| Hematuria | Blood in Urine | Peripneumonia | Inflammation of the lungs | |
| Hemiplegy | Paralysis of one side of the body | Peritonotis | Inflammation of the abdominal area (peritinitus) | |
| Hip Gout | Osteomylitis | Petechial Fever | Skin spotting with fever | |
| Horrors | Delirium tremens | Phthiriasis | Lice Infestation | |
| Hydrocephalus | Water on the brain, enlarged head | Phthisis | Chronic wasting away or Tuberculosis | |
| Hydropericardium | Heart dropsy | Plague | Highly infectious disease with high fatality rate | |
| Hydrophobia | Rabies | Pleurisy | Acute pain with each breath. Fluid in the lining of the lungs | |
| Hydrothroax | Dropsy in the chest | Podaga | Gout | |
| Hypertrophic | Enlargement of organ | Polio Potter's Asthma | Fibroid phthisis | |
| Impetigo | Contagious skin disease with pustules | Pott's Disease | TB of the spine | |
| Inanition | Physical discondition resulting from lack of food, starvation | Puerperal Exhaustion | Death due to childbirth | |
| Infantile Paralysis | Polio | Puerperal fever | Elevated Temp after giving birth | |
| Intestional Colic | Abd. pain due to bad diet | Puking Fever | Milk sickness | |
| Jail Fever | Typhus | Putrid Fever | Diphtheria | |
| Jaundice | Condition caused by blckage of intestines, or liver disease | Quinsy | Tonsillitis | |
| King's Evil | Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands | Remitting Fever | Malaria | |
| Kruchhusten | Whooping Cough | Rheumatism | Any disorder associated with pain in joints | |
| Lagrippe | Influenza | Ricketts | Disease of skeletal system | |
| Lockjaw | Tetanus | Rose Cold | Hay fever and allergy symtoms | |
| Long Sickness | Tuberculosis | Rotanny Fever | Child's Disease?? | |
| Lues Disease | Syphilis | Rubcola | German Measles | |
| Lues venera | Venereal disease | Sanquincous Crust | Scab | |
| Lung Fever | Pneumonia | Scarlatina | Scarlet Fever | |
| Lumbago | Back Pain | Scarlet Fever | Disease characterized by a red rash | |
| Lung Sickness | Tuberculosis | Scarlet Rash | Roseola | |
| Lying in | Time of delivery of baby | Sciatica | Rheumatism of the hips | |
| Malignant sore Throat | Diphtheria | Scirrhus | Cancerous Tumors | |
| Mania | Insantity | Scotomy | Dizziness, Nausea, dimness of sight. | |
| Marasmus | Wasting away of body | Scrivener's Palsy | Writer's cramps | |
| Membranous Croup | Diphtheria | Screws | Rheumatism | |
| Meningitis | Inflammation of the brain or spinal cord | Scrofula | TB of neck glads with abscesses and pustulas - Young persons disease | |
| Metritis | Inflammation of Uterus or purulent vaginal discharge | Scrumpox | Impetigo skin disease | |
| Miasma | Poisonous Vapors thought to infect the air | Septicemia | Blood Poisoning | |
| Milk Fever | Disease from drinking contaminated milk | Shakes | Delirium Tremers | |
| Milk Leg | Post partum thrombophlebitis | Shaking | Chills, ague | |
| Milk Sickness | Disease from milk of cattle who had eaten poisonous weeds | Shingles | Viral disease with skin blisters. | |
| Mormal | Gangrene | Ship Fever | Typhus | |
| Morphew | Scurvy blisters on the body | Siriasis | Inflammation of the brain due to sue exposure | |
| Mortification | Gangrene of necrotic tissue | Sloes | Milk sickness | |
| Myelitis | Inflammation of the spine | Small Pox | Contagious disease with fever and blisters | |
| Myocarditis | Inflammation of heart muscles | Softening of Brain | Result of stroke or hemorrhage |
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| Sore Throat Distemper | Diphtheria or Quinsy | Thrust | Childhood disease with spots on mouth, lips and throat | |
| Spanish Influenza | Epidemic Influenza | Tick Fever | Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever | |
| Spasms | Sudden involuntary contractions of muscles, convulsion | Toxemia | Eclampsia | |
| Spina Bifida | Deformity of the spine | Trench Mouth | Painful ulcers along the gum line caused by poor nutrition and hygiene | |
| Spruce | Tropical disease with intestional disorders and sore throat | Tussis Convulsiva | Whooping Cough | |
| St. Anthony's Fire | Erysipeles with brigh red skin areas | Typhus | Infectious high fever, headache and dizziness | |
| St. Vitas Dance | Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements | Variola | Small Pox | |
| Stomatitis | Inflammation of the Mouth | Venesection | Bleeding | |
| Stranger's Fever | Yellow Fever | Viper's Dance | St. Vitus Dance | |
| Strangery | Rupture | Water on Brain | Enlarged head | |
| Sudor Anglicus | Sweating Sickness | White Swelling | TB of the bones | |
| Summer Complaint | Diarrhea, usually in infants from spoiled milk | Winter Fever | Pneumonia | |
| Sunstroke | Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to enviromental heat | Womb Fever | Infection of Uterus | |
| Swamp Sickness | Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis | Worm Fit | Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea | |
| Sweating Sickness | Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century | Yellowjacket | Yellow Fever | |
| Tetanus | Infectious fever with high temperature, headache and dizziness | |||
| Thrombosis | Blood clots in blood vessels |
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