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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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