Subject: [OHLORAIN-L] What ailed them? Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: OHLORAIN-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 10:32:12 -0500 From: Ellen Bisson To: OHLORAIN-L@rootsweb.com This list of medical ailments--which may help decipher death certificates or hosp records--was posted on another list, with instructions that it could be re-published or forwarded without permission. The original poster was Daniel H. Burrows, but the source was not identified. Please accept my apologies if you receive duplicate postings. > Ablepsy - Blindness > Ague - Malarial Fever > American plague - Yellow fever > Anasarca - Generalized massive edema > Aphonia - Laryngitis > Aphtha - The infant disease "thrush" > Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke > Asphycsia/Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen > Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size. > Bad Blood - Syphilis > Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis > Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease > Black plague or death - Bubonic plague > Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate > Black pox - Black Small pox > Black vomit - Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever > Blackwater fever - Dark urine associated with high temperature > Bladder in throat - Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates) > Blood poisoning - Bacterial infection; septicemia > Bloody flux - Bloody stools > Bloody sweat - Sweating sickness > Bone shave - Sciatica > Brain fever - Meningitis > Breakbone - Dengue fever > Bright's disease - Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys > Bronze John - Yellow fever > Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling > Cachexy - Malnutrition > Cacogastric - Upset stomach > Cacospysy - Irregular pulse > Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy > Camp fever - Typhus; aka Camp diarrhea > Canine madness - Rabies, hydrophobia > Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex > Catalepsy - Seizures / trances > Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy > Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning > Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold > Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child > Chin cough - Whooping cough > Chlorosis - Iron deficiency anemia > Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing > Cholera morbus - Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis > Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder > Cholelithiasis - Gall stones > Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing > Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills > Colic - An abdominal pain and cramping > Congestive chills - Malaria > Consumption - Tuberculosis > Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs > Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea > Congestive fever - Malaria > Corruption - Infection > Coryza - A cold > Costiveness - Constipation > Cramp colic - Appendicitis > Crop sickness - Overextended stomach > Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat > Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood > Cynanche - Diseases of throat > Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder > Day fever - Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness > Debility - Lack of movement or staying in bed > Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age > Delirium tremens - Hallucinations due to alcoholism > Dengue - Infectious fever endemic to East Africa > Dentition - Cutting of teeth > Deplumation - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss > Diary fever - A fever that lasts one day > Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat > Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia > Dock fever - Yellow fever > Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease > Dropsy of the Brain - Encephalitis > Dry Bellyache - Lead poisoning > Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition > Dysentery - Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood > Dysorexy - Reduced appetite > Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms > Dysury - Difficulty in urination > Eclampsy - Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor > Ecstasy - A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason > Edema - Nephrosis; swelling of tissues > Edema of lungs - Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy > Eel thing - Erysipelas > Elephantiasis - A form of leprosy > Encephalitis - Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness > Enteric fever - Typhoid fever > Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines > Enteritis - Inflations of the bowels > Epitaxis - Nose bleed > Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions > Extravasted blood - Rupture of a blood vessel > Falling sickness - Epilepsy > Fatty Liver - Cirrhosis of liver > Fits - Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity > Flux - An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea > Flux of humour - Circulation > French pox - Syphilis > Gathering - A collection of pus > Glandular fever - Mononucleosis > Great pox - Syphilis > Green fever / sickness - Anemia > Grippe/grip - Influenza like symptoms > Grocer's itch - Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour > Heart sickness - Condition caused by loss of salt from body > Heat stroke - Body temperature elevates because of surrounding environment temperature and body does not perspire to reduce temperature. Coma and death result if not reversed > Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever > Hematemesis - Vomiting blood > Hematuria - Bloody urine > Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of body > Hip gout - Osteomylitis > Horrors - Delirium tremens > Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain > Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy > Hydrophobia - Rabies > Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest > Hypertrophic - Enlargement of organ, like the heart > Impetigo - Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules > Inanition - Physical condition resulting from lack of food > Infantile paralysis - Polio > Intestinal colic - Abdominal pain due to improper diet > Jail fever - Typhus > Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines > King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands > Kruchhusten - Whooping cough > Lagrippe - Influenza > Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days Long sickness - Tuberculosis > Lues disease - Syphilis > Lues venera - Venereal disease > Lumbago - Back pain > Lung fever - Pneumonia > Lung sickness - Tuberculosis > Lying in - Time of delivery of infant > Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria > Mania - Insanity > Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition > Membranous Croup - Diphtheria > Meningitis - Inflations of brain or spinal cord > Metritis - Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge > Miasma - Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air > Milk fever - Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant fever or brucellosis > Milk leg - Post partum thrombophlebitis > Milk sickness - Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds > Mormal - Gangrene > Morphew - Scurvy blisters on the body > Mortification - Gangrene of necrotic tissue > Myelitis - Inflammation of the spine > Myocarditis - Inflammation of heart muscles > Necrosis - Mortification of bones or tissue > Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration > Nepritis - Inflammation of kidneys > Nervous prostration - Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities > Neuralgia - Described as discomfort, such as "Headache" was neuralgia in head > Nostalgia - Homesickness > Palsy - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles. It was listed as "Cause of death" > Paroxysm - Convulsion > Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters > Pericarditis - Inflammation of heart > Peripneumonia - Inflammation of lungs > Peritonotis - Inflammation of abdominal area > Petechial Fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting > Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to child birth > Phthiriasis - Lice infestation > Phthisis - Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis > Plague - An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate > Pleurisy - Any pain in the chest area with each breath > Podagra - Gout > Poliomyelitis - PolioPotter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis > Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of spine > Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to childbirth > Puerperal fever - Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant > Puking fever - Milk sickness > Putrid fever - Diphtheria. > Quinsy - 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 > Rotanny fever - (Child's disease) ??? > Rubeola - German measles > Sanguineous crust - Scab > Scarlatina - Scarlet fever > Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by red rash > Scarlet rash - Roseola > Sciatica - Rheumatism in the hips > Scirrhus - Cancerous tumors > Scotomy - Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight > Scrivener's palsy - Writer's cramp > Screws - Rheumatism > Scrofula - Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with > abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's disease > Scrumpox - Skin disease, impetigo > Scurvy - Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums > and hemorrhages under skin > Septicemia - Blood poisoning > Shakes - Delirium tremens > Shaking - Chills, ague > Shingles - Viral disease with skin blisters > Ship fever - Typhus > Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure > Sloes - Milk sickness > Small pox - 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 - Either typhus or meningitis > Sprue - Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat > St. Anthony's fire - Also erysipelas, but named so because of 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 > Sudor anglicus - Sweating sickness > Summer complaint - Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk > Sunstroke - Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause > Swamp sickness - Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis > Sweating sickness - Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century > 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 > Tick fever - Rocky mountain spotted fever > Toxemia of pregnancy - Eclampsia > Trench mouth - Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor > nutrition and poor hygiene > Tussis convulsiva - Whooping cough > Typhus - Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and > dizziness > Variola - Smallpox > Venesection - Bleeding > Viper's dance - St. Vitus Dance > Water on brain - Enlarged head > White swelling - Tuberculosis of the bone > Winter fever - Pneumonia > Womb fever - Infection of the uterus. > Worm fit - Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea > Yellowjacket - Yellow fever. Stay well. Regards, Ellen Bisson ==== OHLORAIN Mailing List ==== Discover Rootsweb! http://www.rootsweb.com Printed: 7:35 PM 10/30/98