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Name
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What was it?
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Ablepsy
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Blindness
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Ague
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Malarial Fever
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American plague
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Yellow fever
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Anasarca
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General massive edema
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Aphonia
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Laryngitis
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Aphtha
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Infant disease "thrush"
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Apoplexy
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Paralysis from stroke
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Asphycsia /Asphicsia
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Cyanotic ( lack of oxygen )
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Atrophy
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Wasting away
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Bad Blood
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Syphilis
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Bilharzia
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Prevalent in the Caribbean, this is known as
Schistosomiasis today. Causes a rash or itchy skin. Fever, chills,
cough, and muscle aches.
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Bilious fever
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Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or high temperature and bile
emesis. Also, what we call Yellow Jaundice, today
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Biliousness
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Jaundice from liver disease
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Black plague or death
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Bubonic plague
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Black fever
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Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin
lesions, high mortality rate
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Black pox
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Black Small pox
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Black vomit
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Vomiting ood black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever
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Blackwater fever
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Dark urine with high temperature
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Bladder in throat
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Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates)
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Blood poisoning
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Bacterial infection; septicemia
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Bloody flux
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Bloody stools
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Bloody sweat
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Sweating sickness
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Bone shave
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Sciatica
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Brain fever
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Meningitis
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Breakbone
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Dengue fever
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Bright's disease
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Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
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Bronze John
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Yellow fever
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Bule
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Boil, tumor or swelling
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Cachexy
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Malnutrition
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Cacogastric
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Upset stomach
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Cacospysy
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Irregular pulse
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Caduceus
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Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy
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Camp fever
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Typhus or Camp diarrhea
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Canine madness
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Rabies, hydrophobia
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Canker
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Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
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Catalepsy
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Seizures or trances
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Catarrhal
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Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy
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Cerebritis
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Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
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Chilblain
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Swelling of extremities from exposure to cold
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Child bed fever
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Infection following child birth
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Chin cough
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Whooping cough
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Chlorosis
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Iron deficiency anemia
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Cholera
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Acute, severe, contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining
sloughing
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Cholera morbus
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Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps,
elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis
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Cholecystitus
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Inflammation of the gall bladder
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Cholelithiasis
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Gall stones
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Chorea
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Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and
dancing
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Cold plague
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Ague characterized by chills
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Colic
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An abdominal pain and cramping
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Congestive chills
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Malaria
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Consumption
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Tuberculosis
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Congestion
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Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs
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Congestive chills
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Malaria with diarrhea
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Congestive fever
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Malaria
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Corruption
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Infection
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Coryza
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A cold
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Costiveness
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Constipation
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Cramp colic
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Appendicitis
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Crop sickness
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Overextended stomach
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Croup
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Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat
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Cyanosis
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Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood
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Cynanche
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Diseases of throat
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Cystitis
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Inflammation of the bladder
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Day fever
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Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness
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Debility
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Lack of movement, staying in bed
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Decrepitude
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Feebleness from old age
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Delirium tremens
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Hallucinations due to alcoholism
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Dengue
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Infectious fever endemic to East Africa
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Dentition
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Cutting of teeth
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Deplumation
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Tumor of the eyelids causing hair loss
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Diary fever
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A fever that lasts one day
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Diptheria
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Contagious disease of the throat
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Distemper
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Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose
and throat, anorexia
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Dock fever
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Yellow fever
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Dropsy
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Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease
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Dropsy of the Brain
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Encephalitis
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Dry Bellyache
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Lead poisoning
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Dyscrasy
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An abnormal body condition
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Dysentery
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Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and
blood
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Dysorexy
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Reduced appetite
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Dyspepsia
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Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms
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Dysury
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Difficulty in urination
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Eclampsy
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Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor
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Ecstasy
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A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason
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Edema
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Nephrosis; swelling of tissues
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Edema of lungs
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Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy
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Eel thing
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Erysipelas
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Elephantiasis
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A form of leprosy
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Encephalitis
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Swelling of brain or sleeping sickness
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Enteric fever
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Typhoid fever
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Enterocolitis
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Inflammation of the intestines
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Enteritis
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Inflations of the bowels
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Epitaxis
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Nose bleed
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Erysipelas
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Contagious skin disease, from Streptococci with vesicular
and bulbous lesions
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Extravasted blood
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Rupture of a blood vessel
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Falling sickness
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Epilepsy
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Fatty Liver
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Cirrhosis of liver
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Fits
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Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity
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Flux
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An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or
diarrhea
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Flux of humour
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Circulation
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French pox
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Syphilis
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Gathering
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A collection of pus
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Glandular fever
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Mononucleosis
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Great pox
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Syphilis
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Green fever / sickness
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Anemia
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Grippe/grip
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Influenza like symptoms
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Grocer's itch
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Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour
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Heart sickness
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Condition caused by loss of salt from body
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Heat stroke
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Body temperature elevates because of surrounding
environment temperature and body does not perspire to reduce
temperature. Coma and death result if not reversed
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Hectical complaint
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Recurrent fever
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Hematemesis
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Vomiting blood
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Hematuria
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Bloody urine
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Hemiplegy
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Paralysis of one side of body
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Hip gout
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Osteomylitis
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Horrors
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Delirium tremens
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Hydrocephalus
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Enlarged head, water on the brain
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Hydropericardium
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Heart dropsy
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Hydrophobia
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Rabies
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Hydrothroax
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Dropsy in chest
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Hypertrophic
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Enlargement of organ, like the heart
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Impetigo
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Contagious skin disease with by pustules
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Inanition
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Physical condition resulting from lack of food
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Infantile paralysis
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Polio
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Intestinal colic
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Abdominal pain from improper diet
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Jail fever
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Typhus
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Jaundice
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Condition caused by blockage of intestines
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King's evil
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Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands
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Kruchhusten
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Whooping cough
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Lagrippe
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Influenza
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Lockjaw
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Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the
neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days
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Long sickness
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Tuberculosis
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Lues disease
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Syphilis
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Lues venera
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Venereal disease
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Lumbago
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Back pain
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Lung fever
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Pneumonia
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Lung sickness
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Tuberculosis
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Lying in
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Time of delivery of infant
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Malaria
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Malignant sore throat
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Diphtheria
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Mania
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Insanity
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Marasmus
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Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition
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Membranous Croup
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Diphtheria
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Meningitis
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Inflations of brain or spinal cord
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Metritis
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Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge
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Miasma
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Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air
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Milk fever
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Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant
fever or brucellosis
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Milk leg
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Post partum thrombophlebitis
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Milk sickness
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Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds
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Mormal
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Gangrene
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Morphew
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Scurvy blisters on the body
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Mortification
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Gangrene of necrotic tissue
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Myelitis
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Inflammation of the spine
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Myocarditis
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Inflammation of heart muscles
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Necrosis
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Mortification of bones or tissue
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Nephrosis
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Kidney degeneration
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Nepritis
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Inflammation of kidneys
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Nervous prostration
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Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and
mental activities
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Neuralgia
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Described as discomfort, such as "Headache" was
neuralgia in head
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Nostalgia
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Homesickness
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Palsy
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Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles.
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Paludismo
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This is the name of Malaria in Puerto Rico
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Paralysis of the insane
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Syphillis.
Contributed by Sue.
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Paroxysm
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Convulsion
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Pemphigus
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Skin disease with watery blisters
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Pericarditis
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Inflammation of heart
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Peripneumonia
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Inflammation of lungs
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Peritonotis
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Inflammation of abdominal area
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Petechial Fever
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Fever with skin spotting
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Puerperal exhaustion
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Death from child birth
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Phthiriasis
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Lice infestation
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Phthisis
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Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis
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Plague
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An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high
fatality rate
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Pleurisy
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Any pain in the chest area with each breath
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Podagra
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Gout
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Poliomyelitis
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PolioPotter's asthma
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Pott's disease
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Tuberculosis of spine
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Puerperal exhaustion
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Death from childbirth
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Puerperal fever
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Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant
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Puking fever
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Milk sickness
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Purpura
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HENOCH-SCHONLEIN PURPURA:
Symptoms: Purple spots on the skin (purpura), usually over the buttocks,
lower legs, and elbows; hives, joint pain; abdominal pain; nausea;
vomiting; diarrhea; bloody stools; painful menstruation
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Putrid fever
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Diphtheria.
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Quinsy
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Tonsillitis.
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Remitting fever
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Malaria
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Rheumatism
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Any disorder associated with pain in joints
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Rickets
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Disease of skeletal system
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Rose cold
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Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
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Rotanny fever
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Children's disease
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Rubeola
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German measles
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Sanguineous crust
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Scab
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Scarlatina
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Scarlet fever
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Scarlet fever
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A disease with a red rash
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Scarlet rash
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Roseola
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Sciatica
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Rheumatism in the hips
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Scirrhus
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Cancerous tumors
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Scotomy
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Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight
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Scrivener's palsy
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Writer's cramp
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Screws
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Rheumatism
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Scrofula
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Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with
abscesses and pistulas developing. Usually occurs in the young.
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Scrumpox
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Skin disease, impetigo
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Scurvy
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Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums,
hemmoraging under skin.
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Septicemia
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Blood poisoning Shakes
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Shaking
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Chills, ague
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Shingles
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Viral disease with skin blisters
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Ship fever
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Typhus
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Siriasis
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Inflammation of the brain from exposure to the sun
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Sloes
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Milk sickness
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Small pox
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Contagious disease with fever and blisters
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Softening of brain
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Result of stroke or hemorrhage in the brain, with an end
result of the tissue softening in that area
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Sore throat distemper
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Diphtheria or quinsy
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Spanish influenza
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Epidemic influenza
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Spasms
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Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of
muscles, like a convulsion
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Spina bifida
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Deformity of spine
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Spotted fever
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Either typhus or meningitis
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Sprue
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Tropical disease with intestinal disorders and sore throat
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St. Anthony's fire
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Also erysipelas, but named so because of affected skin
areas are bright red in appearance
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St. Vitas dance
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Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements
performed involuntary
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Stomatitis
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Inflammation of the mouth
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Stranger's fever
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Yellow fever
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Strangery
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Rupture
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Sudor anglicus
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Sweating sickness
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Summer complaint
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Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk
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Sunstroke
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Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to
environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause
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Swamp sickness
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Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
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Sweating sickness
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Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century
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Tetanus
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Infectious fever with high fever, headache and dizziness
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Thrombosis
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Blood clot inside blood vessel Thrush
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Tick fever
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Rocky mountain spotted fever
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Toxemia of pregnancy
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Eclampsia
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Trench mouth
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Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor
nutrition and poor hygiene
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Tuberculosis
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This is the modern name. See 'Long sickness', 'Lung
sickness', and 'King's evil' above.
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Tussis convulsiva
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Whooping cough
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Typhus
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Infectious fever with high fever, headache, and dizziness
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Variola
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Smallpox
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Venesection
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Bleeding
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Viper's dance
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St. Vitus Dance
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Water on brain
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Enlarged head
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White swelling
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Tuberculosis of the bone
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Winter fever
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Pneumonia
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Womb fever
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Infection of the uterus.
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Worm fit
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Convulsions associated with teething, worms, high
temperature or diarrhea
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Yellowjacket
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Yellow fever.
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