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Genealogy Project

DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS

  • Falling Sickness: epilepsy
  • Fatty Liver: cirrhosis of liver
  • Fits: sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity
  • Flux: excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea
  • Flux of Humour: circulation
  • French Pox: syphilis
  • Gathering: collection of pus
  • Glandular Fever: mononucleosis
  • Great Pox: syphilis
  • Green Fever: anemia
  • Grippe: 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

Source: Provided by Dan Burrows.

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