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.