Medical Terms of the Late 18th Century
- ADDISON'S DISEASE: anemic condition caused by kidney disease
- AGUE: used to define the recurring fever and chills of malarial infection
- APHONIA: laryngitis
- APOPLEXY: stroke
- BILLIOUSNESS: jaundice or other symptoms associated with liver disease
- BRIGHT'S DISEASE: kidney disease
- CAMP FEVER: typhus
- CANINE MADNESS: hydrophobia
- CARDITIS: inflammation of the heart wall
- CATARRH: inflammation of mucous membrane
- CHLOROSIS: iron deficency anemia
- CHOREA: St. Vitus' Dance: nervous disorder
- CONSUMPTION: (phthisis pulmonalia): tuberculosis
- CORRUPTION: infection
- CORYZA: a cold
- COSTIVENNESS: constipation
- CRAMP COLIC: appendicitis
- DROPSY: edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease
- DYSEPSIA: acid indigestion
- EXTRAVASTED BLOOD: rupture of a blood vessel
- FALLING SICKNESS: epilepsy
- FLUS OF HUMOR: circulation
- FRENCH POX: veneral disease
- GREEN SICKNESS: anemia
- HIP GOUT: osteomylitis
- JAIL FEVER: typhus
- KING'S EVIL: tubercular infection of the throat lymph glands
- LA GRIPPE: flu
- LUES: syphlis
- LUMBAGO: back pain
- LUNG FEVER: pneumonia
- LUNG SICKNESS: tuberculosis
- MANIA: insanity
- MARASMUS: progressive emaciation
- MEMBRAMOUS CROUP: hoarse cough
- MORTIFICATION: infection
- NEURASTHENIA: neurotic condition
- NOSTALIA: homesickness
- POTT'S DISEASE: degeneration of the vertebrae
- PUTRID FEVER: diptheria
- QUINSY: tonsilitis
- REMITTING FEVER: malaria
- SANGUINOUS CRUST: scab
- SEPTICEMIA: blood poisoning
- SCREWS: rheumatism
- SCROFULA: see KING'S EVIL
- SHIPS FEVER: typhus
- STRANGERY: rupture
- SUMMER COMPLAINT: dysentry or baby diarrhea caused by spoiled milk
- VENESECTION: bleeding
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