AGUE-CAKE - a hard tumor or swelling on the left side of the abdomen, lower than the false rib, resulting from enlargement of the spleen or liver, and supposed to be the effect of intermitting fevers

ANCOME - [whitlow] an ulcerous swelling, a boil

APOPLEXY - stroke

BARREL FEVER - sickness produced by immoderate drinking

BILIOUS FEVER - fever caused by liver disorder

BLACK DEATH - typhus

BLACK LUNG - disease from breathing coal dust

BLOODY FLUX - dysentery

BLOODY SWEAT - a sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood

BRIGHT'S DISEASE - inflammation of the kidneys - in its acute form, it is called nephritis

CAMP FEVER - typhus

CATARRH - inflammation of the mucous membrane which caused profuse running of the eyes and nose

CHILBLAIN - an inflammatory swelling of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold

CHIN COUGH - [WHOOPING COUGH] characterized by breathing difficulties, and in its worst stage, convulsions

CONGESTIVE FEVER - malaria

CONSUMPTION - tuberculosis

CRAMP COLIC - appendicitis

DAY FEVER - a fever of a day's duration or coming on in the daytime; the sweating sickness

DIPHTHERIA - an infectious disease which could be spread by infected milk, characterized by the production of a systemic toxin and the formation of a false membrane on the lining of the mucous membrane of the throat and other respiratory passages, causing difficulty in breathing, high fever, and weakness

DOCK FEVER - yellow fever

DROPSY - an abnormal collection of fluid in the tissues and cavities of the body

DROPSY OF THE BRAIN - encephalitis

DYSENTERY - inflammation of intestinal membrane

DYSPEPSIA - bad digestion usually involving weakness, loss of appetite, and depression

DYSURY - difficulty in discharging urine, accompanied by pain and a sensation of heat

EDEMA - swelling of tissues

ENTERITIS - Inflammation of the intestines, could also take the form of enteric fever (typhoid)

ERYSIPELAS - [Saint Anthony's Fire] a skin disease caused by strep infection which devastates the blood

EXCRESCENCE - an unnatural or disfiguring outgrowth of the skin

FALLING SICKNESS - epilepsy

FLUX - the drainage or discharge of liquid from a body cavity

GALLOPING CONSUMPTION - pulmonary tuberculosis

GOITER - [struma] a noncancerous enlargement of the thyroid gland, visible as a swelling at the front of the neck, that is often associated with iodine deficiency

GOUT - a disturbance of uric-acid metabolism occurring predominantly in males, characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, especially of the feet and hands

GRAVE'S DISEASE - disorder of the thyroid gland

GREEN SICKNESS - [CHLOROSIS] anemia; a disease of young women giving the complexion a greenish tinge

GROCER'S ITCH - a cutaneous disease caused by mites in sugar and flour

GRIPE / LA GRIPPE - influenza

HEAT SICKNESS - a condition marked especially by cessation of sweating and extremely high body temperature, caused by a loss of salt from the body

HEMATEMESIS - vomiting blood

HEMATURIA - a discharge of bloody urine

HEMIPHLEGY - a palsy or paralysis that affects one side of the body

JAUNDICE - a condition caused by obstruction of bile and characterized by yellowness of the skin, fluids and tissues, and by constipation, loss of appetite, and weakness

LUES VENERA - venereal disease

LUMBAGO - a pain in the loins and small of the back, such as precedes certain fevers

LUNG FEVER - pneumonia

LUNG SICKNESS - tuberculosis

MANIA - insanity

MARASMUS - progressive emaciation, usually due to severe malnutrition or protracted intestinal disorders

MEMBRANOUS CROUP - diphtheria

MILKSICK - not actually a disease, but a form of poisoning caused by cows ingesting the leaves of the white snakeroot plant and passing along its toxin in their milk

MORSAL - Gangrene

NEPHRITIS - inflammation of the kidneys

NEURALGIA - an affection of one or more nerves causing intermittent but frequent pains

NEURASTHENIA - neurotic condition characaterized by worry, disturbances of digestion and circulation and attributed to emotional conflict and feelings of inferiority

PALSY - the loss or defect of the power of voluntary muscular motion in all or part of the body; paralysis

PHRENITIS - formerly infammation of the brain, with acute fever and delirium; infammation of the diaphragm

PLEURISY - inflammation of the membrane that covers the inside of the thorax, accompanied with fever, pain and cough

POX - syphilis

PUERPERAL FEVER - [childbed fever] septic poisoning which sometimes followed the birth of a child

PUTRID FEVER - diptheria

QUINSY / QUINCY - severe attack of tonsilitis which resulted in abscess near the tonsils

RHEUMATISM - a painful disease affecting muscles and joints, chiefly the larger joints

RICKETS - a disease of the skeletal system resulting from a deficiency of calcium or vitamin D in the diet, or from lack of sunlight

SCARLATINA - scarlet fever, commonly referred to as the canker rash

SCARLET FEVER - a disease in which the body is covered with a red rash first appearing on the neck and breast, and accompanied by a sore throat

SCIATICA - rheumatism in the hip

SCOTOMY - dizziness or nausea, with dimness of sight

SCRIVENER'S PALSY - writer's cramp

SCROFULA - a disease, called the King's Evil, characterized by tumors in the glands of the neck; tuberculosis of lymph glands

SCRUMPOX - [impetigo] a pustular disease of the skin

SCURVY - a disease characterized by great dibility, a pale bloated face, and bleeding spongy gums, usually suffered by people living confined or on salted meats without fresh vegetables

SEPTICEMIA - blood poisoning

SHIP'S FEVER - typhus

ST. VITUS DANCE - [Chorea] the dancing madness; an epidemic characterized by contortions, convulsions and dancing

SWEATING SICKNESS - an acute, infectious, rapidly fatal disease epidemic in Egland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

TYPHUS - an acute infectious fever, characterized by high fever, dizziness, and headache [also Black Death]

ULCERATION - loss of the surface covering, such as of skin or the mucous lining, of the intestine

VENESECTION - the opening of a vein for letting blood; phlebotomy

WHITLOW - an ulcerous swelling, a boil [Also ancome]

WHOOPING COUGH - [PERTUSSIS or CHIN COUGH] a highly contagious disease of the respiratory system, usually affecting children, that is characterized in its advanced stage by spasms of coughing interspersed with deep, noisy inspirations

WINTER FEVER - pneumonia

YELLOW JACKET - yellow fever