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Name

What was it?

Ablepsy

Blindness

Ague

Malarial Fever

American plague

Yellow fever

Anasarca

General massive edema

Aphonia

Laryngitis

Aphtha

Infant disease "thrush"

Apoplexy

Paralysis from stroke

Asphycsia /Asphicsia

Cyanotic ( lack of oxygen )

Atrophy

Wasting away

Bad Blood

Syphilis

Bilharzia

Prevalent in the Caribbean, this is known as Schistosomiasis today. Causes a rash or itchy skin. Fever, chills, cough, and muscle aches. 

Bilious fever

Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or high temperature and bile emesis. Also, what we call Yellow Jaundice, today

Biliousness

Jaundice from liver disease

Black plague or death

Bubonic plague

Black fever

Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions, high mortality rate

Black pox

Black Small pox

Black vomit

Vomiting ood black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever

Blackwater fever

Dark urine with high temperature

Bladder in throat

Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates)

Blood poisoning

Bacterial infection; septicemia

Bloody flux

Bloody stools

Bloody sweat

Sweating sickness

Bone shave

Sciatica

Brain fever

Meningitis

Breakbone

Dengue fever

Bright's disease

Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys

Bronze John

Yellow fever

Bule

Boil, tumor or swelling

Cachexy

Malnutrition

Cacogastric

Upset stomach

Cacospysy

Irregular pulse

Caduceus

Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy

Camp fever

Typhus or Camp diarrhea

Canine madness

Rabies, hydrophobia

Canker

Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex

Catalepsy

Seizures or trances

Catarrhal

Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy

Cerebritis

Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning

Chilblain

Swelling of extremities from exposure to cold

Child bed fever

Infection following child birth

Chin cough

Whooping cough

Chlorosis

Iron deficiency anemia

Cholera

Acute, severe, contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing

Cholera morbus

Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis

Cholecystitus

Inflammation of the gall bladder

Cholelithiasis

Gall stones

Chorea

Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing

Cold plague

Ague characterized by chills

Colic

An abdominal pain and cramping

Congestive chills

Malaria

Consumption

Tuberculosis

Congestion

Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs

Congestive chills

Malaria with diarrhea

Congestive fever

Malaria

Corruption

Infection

Coryza

A cold

Costiveness

Constipation

Cramp colic

Appendicitis

Crop sickness

Overextended stomach

Croup

Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat

Cyanosis

Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood

Cynanche

Diseases of throat

Cystitis

Inflammation of the bladder

Day fever

Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness

Debility

Lack of movement, staying in bed

Decrepitude

Feebleness from old age

Delirium tremens

Hallucinations due to alcoholism

Dengue

Infectious fever endemic to East Africa

Dentition

Cutting of teeth

Deplumation

Tumor of the eyelids causing hair loss

Diary fever

A fever that lasts one day

Diptheria

Contagious disease of the throat

Distemper

Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia

Dock fever

Yellow fever

Dropsy

Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease

Dropsy of the Brain

Encephalitis

Dry Bellyache

Lead poisoning

Dyscrasy

An abnormal body condition

Dysentery

Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood

Dysorexy

Reduced appetite

Dyspepsia

Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms

Dysury

Difficulty in urination

Eclampsy

Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor

Ecstasy

A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason

Edema

Nephrosis; swelling of tissues

Edema of lungs

Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy

Eel thing

Erysipelas

Elephantiasis

A form of leprosy

Encephalitis

Swelling of brain or sleeping sickness

Enteric fever

Typhoid fever

Enterocolitis

Inflammation of the intestines

Enteritis

Inflations of the bowels

Epitaxis

Nose bleed

Erysipelas

Contagious skin disease, from Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions

Extravasted blood

Rupture of a blood vessel

Falling sickness

Epilepsy

Fatty Liver

Cirrhosis of liver

Fits

Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity

Flux

An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea

Flux of humour

Circulation

French pox

Syphilis

Gathering

A collection of pus

Glandular fever

Mononucleosis

Great pox

Syphilis

Green fever / sickness

Anemia

Grippe/grip

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