DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS
- Sanguineous Crust: scab
- Scarlatina: scarlet fever
- Scarlet Fever: 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 absesses and fistulas 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: inflamation 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: typhus or meningitis
- Sprue: tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat
- St. Anthony's Fire: erysipelas, 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: inflamation 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 environmental heat; lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause
- Swamp Sickness: malaria, typhoid, or encephalitis
- Sweating Sickness: infectious and fatal disease common in England during the 15th century
Source: Provided by Dan Burrows.