Diseases
I - Z
| Icterus | jaundice |
| Impetigo | contagious skin disease characterized by pustules; aka scrumpox |
| Inanition | physical condition resulting from lack of food |
| Infantile Paralysis | polio |
| Infection | affection or contamination of a person, organ, or wound with invading, multiplying, disease-producing germs |
| Inflammation | redness, swelling, pain, tenderness, heat, and disturbed function of an area of the body, especially as a result of injury |
| Intestinal Colic | abdominal pain due to improper diet |
| Jail Fever | typhus |
| Jaundice | condition caused by obstruction of bile and characterized by yellowness of the skin, fluids and tissues, and by constipation, loss of appetite, and weakness |
| Kidney Stone | gravel |
| King's Evil | tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands; aka scrofula |
| Kruchhusten | whooping cough |
| La Grippe | Influenza |
| Lagrippe | Influenza |
| Lockjaw | tetanus; infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw; untreated, it is fatal in 8 days; aka trismus, tetanus |
| Long Sickness | tuberculosis |
| Lues | syphilis |
| Lues Venera | venereal disease |
| Lumbago | back pain |
| Lung Fever | pneumonia or tuberculosis |
| Lung Sickness | tuberculosis |
| Lying In | time of delivery of infant |
| Malignant Fever | typhus |
| Malignant Sore Throat | diphtheria |
| Mania | insanity |
| Marasmus | progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition |
| Membranous Croup | diphtheria |
| Meningitis | inflammations of brain or spinal cord; aka brain fever |
| Metritis | inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge |
| Miasma | poisonous vapors thought to infect the air |
| Milk fever | disease from drinking contaminated milk; fever which effects lactating women |
| Milk leg | Post partum thrombophlebitis |
| Milk Sick | poisoning resulting from the drinking of milk produced by a cow who had eaten a plant known as white snake root |
| Milk sickness | poisoning resulting from the drinking of milk produced by a cow who had eaten a plant known as white snake root |
| Morbus | Latin word for disease |
| Mormal | gangrene |
| Morphew | scurvy blisters on the body |
| Morsal | gangrene |
| Mortification | gangrene of necrotic tissue; infection |
| Myelitis | inflammation of the spine |
| Myocarditis | inflammation of heart muscles |
| Necrosis | mortification of bones or tissue |
| Nephritis | inflammation of kidneys |
| Nephrosis | kidney degeneration |
| Nepritis | inflammation of kidneys |
| Nervous Prostration | extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities |
| Neuralgia | discomfort - e.g. "Headache" was neuralgia in head |
| Neurasthenia | neurotic condition |
| Nostalgia | homesickness |
| Palsy | paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles |
| Paristhmitis | quinsy |
| Paroxysm | convulsion |
| Pemphigus | skin disease of watery blisters |
| performed | involuntary |
| Pericarditis | inflammation of heart |
| Peripneumonia | inflammation of lungs |
| Peritonitis | inflammation of abdominal area |
| Pertossis | breathing difficulties - sometimes convulsions; aka Whooping Cough, Chin Cough |
| Pest | Pestilence. |
| Pesthouse | special isolation hospital or quarantine house for victims of contagious epidemic diseases |
| Petechial Fever | fever characterized by skin spotting; see typhus |
| Peurperal Exhaustion | death due to child birth |
| Phlegmasia Alba Dolens | milk leg |
| Phrenitis | inflammation of the brain with acute fever delirium; inflammation of the diaphragm. |
| Phthiriasis | lice infestation |
| Phthisis | chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis; consumption |
| Plague | acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate; aka Bubonic Plague |
| Black Death | bubonic plague |
| Pleurisy | any pain in the chest area with each breath |
| Pneumonia | inflammation of the lungs with congestion or consolidation |
| Podagra | gout |
| Poliomyelitis | fibroid pthisis; aka Polio, Potter's asthma |
| Potter's Asthma | fibroid pthisis |
| Pott's Disease | tuberculosis of spine |
| Pox | any unknown disease that caused sores to appear on the body; usually referred to syphilis |
| Protein Disease | childhood kidney disease that causes the kidney to leak protein; allergic reaction to certain kinds of strep infections |
| Puerperal Exhaustion | death due to childbirth |
| Puerperal Fever | elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant; aka Childbed Fever |
| Puking Fever | milk sickness |
| Pus | yellow-white substance found in abscesses and sores |
| Putrid Fever | diphtheria |
| Putrid Sore Throat | acute ulceration of the tonsils |
| Pyrexia | dysentery |
| Quinsy | tonsillitis |
| Quincy | tonsillitis |
| Remitting Fever | malaria |
| Rheumatism | any disorder associated with pain in joints |
| Rickets | disease of skeletal system |
| Rose Cold | hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy |
| Roseola | scarlet colored rash |
| Rotanny Fever | child's disease |
| Rubella | German measles |
| Rubeola | German measles |
| Saint Anthony's Fire | skin disease caused by strep infection which devastates the blood; aka Erysiphelas |
| Saint Vitus' Dance | epidemic characterized by contortions, convulsions, and dancing; aka Dancing Madness, Chorea |
| Sanguineous Crust | scab |
| Scarlatina | scarlet fever |
| Scarlet Fever | disease characterized by red rash |
| Scarlet Rash | roseola |
| Scarlet Thrush | roseola |
| Sciatica | rheumatism in the hips |
| Scirrhus | cancerous tumors |
| Scotomy | dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight |
| Screws | rheumatism |
| Scrivener's Palsy | writer's cramp |
| Scrofula | tuberculosis of neck lymph glands; see King's Evil |
| Scrumpox | skin disease, impetigo |
| Scurvy | weakness, spongy gums and hemorrhages under skin caused by lack of vitamin C |
| Septecemia | blood poisoning (from an infection) |
| Septic | local or generalized infection |
| Septicemia | blood poisoning |
| Shakes | delirium tremens |
| Shaking | chills, ague |
| Shingles | viral disease with skin blisters |
| Ship Fever | typhus |
| Ship's Fever | typhus |
| Simple Smiling Jesus | spinal meningitis |
| Siriasis | inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure |
| Sloes | milk sickness |
| Smallpox | contagious disease with fever and blisters |
| Softening of brain | result of stroke or hemorrhage in the brain, with an end result of the tissue softening in that area |
| Sore Throat Distemper | diphtheria or quinsy |
| Spanish Influenza | epidemic influenza |
| Spasms | sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles, like a convulsion |
| Spina Bifida | deformity of spine |
| Spotted fever | typhus; meningitis |
| Sprue | tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat |
| St. Anthony's fire | erysipelas; so named because affected skin areas are bright red in appearance |
| St. Vitas dance | ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements performed involuntarily |
| Stomatitis | inflammation of the mouth |
| Stranger's Fever | yellow fever |
| Strangery | rupture |
| Strangury | painful, interrupted urination caused by spasms of the bladder or urethra |
| Sudor anglicus | sweating sickness |
| Suffocation | stoppage of respiration |
| Summer Complaint | diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk |
| Sunstroke | uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environmental temperature |
| Suppuration | production of pus |
| Swamp Sickness | could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis |
| Sweating Sickness | infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th Century; fever of a day's duration or coming on in the daytime - aka Day Fever |
| Tabes Mesenterica | tuberculosis of the mesenteric glands in children, resulting in digestive derangement and wasting of the body |
| Teething | process of the eruption of the teeth |
| Tetanus | infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness |
| Thrombosis | blood clot inside blood vessel |
| Thrush | childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat |
| Thyrotoxicosis | disease affecting the thyroid gland |
| Tick Fever | rocky mountain spotted fever |
| Toxemia of Pregnancy | eclampsia |
| Trench Mouth | painful ulcers found along gum line |
| Trismus Nascentium | form of tetanus seen only in infants, almost invariably in the first five days of life. |
| Trismus Neonatorum | form of tetanus seen only in infants, almost invariably in the first five days of life. |
| Tussis Convulsiva | whooping cough |
| Typhoid Fever | infectious, often-fatal, febrile disease characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; aka enteric fever. |
| Typhoid | infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness |
| Typhus | infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness |
| Ulceration | loss of the surface covering, such as of skin or the mucous lining of the intestine |
| Undulant Fever | intermittent fever caused by brucellosis; aka abortus fever |
| Variola | smallpox |
| Venesection | bleeding or blood letting; the opening of a vein for releasing Bad Humours; aka Phlebotomy |
| Viper's Dance | St. Vitus Dance |
| Virus | ultramicroscopic, metabolically inert infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts; in the early 1800s virus meant poison, venom, or contagion. |
| Water on Brain | enlarged head |
| White Swelling | tuberculosis of the bone |
| Whitlow | ulcerous swelling, a boil; aka Ancome |
| Whooping Cough | highly contagious disease of the respiratory system |
| Winter Fever | pneumonia |
| Womb Fever | infection of the uterus |
| Worm Fit | convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea |
| Yellow Fever | acute, often-fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by a virus |
| Yellowjacket | Yellow fever |
| Yellow Jacket | Yellow fever |
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