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Genealogy Project

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.

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