DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS
- 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 by high fever, headache and dizziness
- Variola: smallpox
- Venesection: bleeding
- Viper's Dance: St. Vidas 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
Source: Provided by Dan Burrows.
