Old Name	Medical Name/Meaning
Ablepsia	Blindness
African Consumption	Tuberculosis
Ansasrca	Generalized Dropsy
Ague	recurring fever & chills of Malaria
Angina Pectoris	Paroxysms with severe pain in lower chest, feeling of suffocation
Apoplexy	Stroke
Bethlehemite	Mentally ill person
Bilious fever	Fever, liver disorder the cause
Black Death	typhus
Black Lung	From breathing coal dust
Black Pox	Smallpox
Bloody Flux	Dysentery
Brain Fever	Sun stroke
Bright's Disease	Kidney Inflammation
Bronze John	Yellow Fever
Camp Fever	Typhus
Canine Madness	Hydrophobia (Rabies)
Catarrh	(1) Inflammation of Mucous Membrane or (2) Cerebral Hemorrhage (Apoplexy)
Cerebritis	Inflammation of the Brain
Childbed Fever	Infection following Childbirth
Chin Cough	Whooping cough
Chorea	St. Vitus Dance
Commotion	Concussion
Congestive Chill	Accumulation of the blood in the blood vessels
Congestive Fever	Malaria
Consuption	Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Corruption	Infection
Coryza	Cold
Cramp Colic	Appendicitis
Debilitas	Weakness of the Body
Devonshire Colic	Erposure to lead
Dropsy	Edema caused by kidney or heart disease
Dysentery	Inflammation of intestinal mucous membrane
Dyspepsia	Acid Indigestion
Enteric Fever	Typhoid Fever
Enteritis	Intestinal inflammation
Extravasated blood	Ruptured blood vessel
Falling Sickness	Epilepsy
Fits	Convulsions
Flus of Humour	Circulation
French Disease	Syphilis
French Pox	Venereal Disease
Galloping Consumption	Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Green Sickness	Anemia
Grippe	Influenza
Hallucination	Delirium
Hip Gout	Osteomyelitis
Ictus Solis	Sunstroke
Jail Fever	Typhus
King's Evil	Scrofula; Swelling of the neck glands
La Grippe	Flu
Lues Venera	Venereal Disease
Lumbago	Pain in lower back, hip, or thigh: Sciatica
Lung fever	Pneumonia
Lung Sickness	Tuberculosis
Mania	Insanity
Mirasmus	Emaciation
Milk Leg	inflammation of leg
Morbus	Disease
Mormal	Gangrene
Mortification	Infection
Nostalgia	Homesickness
Painter's Colic	Exposure to lead
Phthisis	Pulmonary Consumption
Pleurisy	Inflammation of Lung
Pox	Syphilis
Puerperal Fever	Infection following childbirth
Putrid Fever	Diphtheria
Quinsey	Tonsillitis
Remitting Fever	Malaria
Sanguinous Crust	Scab
Scorbutus	Lack of Vitamin C
Screws	Rheumatism
Scrofula	see King's Evil
Senile Gangrene	Hardening of the Arteries
Ship's Fever	Typhus
Sore Throat Distemper	Quinsey
St. Anthony's Fire	Skin Infection
St. Vitus' Dance	Nervous Twitches
Sloes	Milk Sickness
Ulcus	Ulcer
Venesection	Bleeding
Whitlow	Boil
Winter Fever	Pneumonia
Yellow Jacket	Yellow Fever