El Dorado County Disease Terminology

Disease	Description
Ablepsy	Blindness
Ague	Malarial Fever
American plague	Yellow fever
Anasarca	Generalized massive edema
Aphonia	Laryngitis
Aphtha	The infant disease "thrush"
Apoplexy	Paralysis due to stroke
Asphycsia/Asphicsia	Cyanotic and lack of oxygen
Atrophy	Wasting away or diminishing in size.
Bad Blood	Syphilis
Bilious fever	Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis
Biliousness	Jaundice associated with liver disease
Black plague or death	Bubonic plague
Black fever	Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate
Black pox	Black Small pox
Black vomit	Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever
Blackwater fever	Dark urine associated 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; aka Camp diarrhea
Canine madness	Rabies, hydrophobia
Canker	Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
Catalepsy	Seizures / trances
Catarrhal	Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy
Cerebritis	Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
Chilblain	Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold
Child bed fever	Infection following birth of a child
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 which is 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 or staying in bed
Decrepitude	Feebleness due to old age
Delirium tremens	Hallucinations due to alcoholism
Dengue	Infectious fever endemic to East Africa
Dentition	Cutting of teeth
Deplumation	Tumor of the eyelids which causes 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; aka sleeping sickness
Enteric fever	Typhoid fever
Enterocolitis	Inflammation of the intestines
Enteritis	Inflations of the bowels
Epitaxis	Nose bleed
Erysipelas	Contagious skin disease, due to 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	Paralysis of one side of body
Hip gout	Osteomylitis
Horrors	Delirium tremens
Hydrocephalus	Enlarged head, water on the brain
Hydropericardium	Heart dropsy
Hydrophobia	Rabies
Hydrothroax	Dropsy in chest
Hypertrophic	Enlargement of organ, like the heart
Impetigo	Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules
Inanition	Physical condition resulting from lack of food
Infantile paralysis	Polio
Intestinal colic	Abdominal pain due to improper diet
Jail fever	Typhus
Jaundice	Condition caused by blockage of intestines

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