DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS
- 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: veneral 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: inflamation 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: inflamation of the spine
- Myocarditis: inflamation of heart muscles
- Necrosis: mortification of bones or tissue
- Nephrosis: kidney degeneration
- Nepritis: inflamation 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
Source: Provided by Dan Burrows.
