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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