NAMES OF OLD TIME ILLNESSES
Compiled by Daniel H. Burrows
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| Ablepsy | Blindness | Congestion | Any Collection of Fluid in an organ | |
| Ague | Malarial Fever | Congestive fever | Malaria | |
| American Plague | Yellow | Corruption | Infection | |
| Anasarca | Generalized Massive Edema | Coryza | A Cold | |
| Aphonia | Laryngitis | Costiveness | Constipation | |
| Aphtha | The infant disease "Thrust" | Cramp Colic | Appendicitis | |
| Apoplexy | Paralysis due to stroke | Crop Sickness | Overextended Stomach | |
| Asphycsia/Asphicsia | Cyanosis and lack of Oxygen | Croup | Laryngitis, Diphtheria, or Strep Throat | |
| Atrophy | Wasting away or diminishing in size | Cyanosis | Dark skin from lack of Oxygen | |
| Bad Blood | Syphilis | Cynanche | Diseases of Throat | |
| Bilious Fever | Elevated Temperature with Bile emesis | Cystitis | Inflammation of the bladder | |
| Biliousness | Jaundice associated with liver disease | Day Fever | Sweating sickness, fever lasting one day | |
| Black Plague | Bubonic Plague | Debility | Lack of movement, staying in bed | |
| Black Fever | Acute infection with temperature and dark red skin lesions | Decrepitude | Feebleness due to old age | |
| Black Pox | Black Small Pox | Delirium Tremens | Hallucinations due to Alcoholism | |
| Black Vomit | Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever | Dengue | Infectious Fever endemic to East Africa | |
| Blackwater Fever | Dark urine with high temperature | Dentition | Cutting of Teeth | |
| Bladder in Throat | Diphtheria | Deplumation | Tumors of eyelids causing hair loss | |
| Blood poisoning | Bacterial Infection, septicemia | Dairy Fever | Fever that last one day | |
| Bloody flux | Bloody stools | Diphtheria | Contagious disease of the Throat | |
| Bloody Sweat | Sweating sickness | Distemper | Usually animal disease with malaise, anorexia | |
| Bone Shave | Sciatica | Dock Fever | Yellow Fever | |
| Brain Fever | Meningitis | Dropsy | Edema caused by kidney or heart disease | |
| Breakbone | Dengue Fever | Dropsy of Brain | Encephalitis | |
| Bright's Disease | Chronic inflammation of the Kidneys | Dry Bellyache | Lead Poisoning | |
| Bronze John | Yellow Fever | Dyscrasy | Abnormal body condition | |
| Blue | Boil, Tumor or swelling | Dysentery | Inflammation of colon with frequent bloody or mucous stools | |
| Cachexy | Malnutrition | Dysorexy | reduced appetite | |
| Cacogastric | Upset Stomach | Dyspepsia | Indigestion and heartburn symptoms of heart attack | |
| Cacospysy | Irregular Pulse | Dysury | Difficulty of urination | |
| Carduccus | subject to falling sickness or epilepsy | Eclampsy | Convulsions during labor | |
| Camp Fever | Typhus aka Camp Diarrhea | Ecstasy | Form of Catalepsy | |
| Canine Madness | Rabies, hydrophobia | Edema | Nephrosis, swelling of tissue | |
| Canker | Ulceration of the Mouth or lips-Herpes Simplex | Edema of Lungs | Congestive Heart Failure | |
| Catalepsy | Seizures, Trances | Eel thing | Erysipelas | |
| Catarrhal | Nose and throat discharge
from cold or Allergies. |
Elephantiasis | Form of Leprosy | |
| Cerebritis | Inflammation of the Cerebrum or Lead Poisoning | Encephalitis | Swelling of the Brain, Sleeping Sickness | |
| Chilblain | Swelling of extremities due to exposure to cold | Enteric Fever | Typhoid Fever | |
| Child Bed Fever | Infection following childbirth | Enterocolitis | Inflammation of the Intestines | |
| Chin Cough | Whooping Cough | Enteritis | Inflations of the bowels | |
| Chlorosis | Iron Deficiency Anemia | Epitaxis | Nose bleed | |
| Cholera | Acute sever contagious diarrhea with intestinal sloughing | Erysipelas | Contagious skin disease due to Strep with vesicular bulbous lesions | |
| Cholera Morbus | Nausea, emesis, abd cramps, elevated temp. | Extravasted Blood | Rupture of a blood vessel | |
| Cholecystitus | Inflammation of Gall Bladder | Falling Sickness | Epilepsy | |
| Cholelithiasis | Gall Stones | Fatty Liver | Cirrhosis of the liver | |
| Chorea | Characterized by convulsions, Contortions and dancing. | Fits | Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity | |
| Cold Plague | Ague with chills | Flux | Excessive flow of fluids, like diarrhea or hemorrhage | |
| Colic | Abdominal cramping | Flux of Humour | Circulation | |
| Congestive Chills | Malaria | French Pox | Syphilis | |
| Consumption | Tuberculosis | Gathering | Collection of pus |
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