El Dorado County Disease Terminology

Disease	Description
King's evil	Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands
Kruchhusten	Whooping cough
Lagrippe	Influenza
Lockjaw	Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days.
Long sickness	Tuberculosis
Lues disease	Syphilis
Lues venera	Venereal disease
Lumbago	Back pain
Lung fever	Pneumonia
Lung sickness	Tuberculosis
Lying in	Time of delivery of infant
Malignant sore throat	Diphtheria
Mania	Insanity
Marasmus	Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition
Membranous Croup	Diphtheria
Meningitis	Inflations of brain or spinal cord
Metritis	Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge
Miasma	Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air
Milk fever	Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant fever or brucellosis
Milk leg	Post partum thrombophlebitis
Milk sickness	Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds
Mormal	Gangrene
Morphew	Scurvy blisters on the body
Mortification	Gangrene of necrotic tissue
Myelitis	Inflammation of the spine
Myocarditis	Inflammation of heart muscles
Necrosis	Mortification of bones or tissue
Nephrosis	Kidney degeneration
Nepritis	Inflammation of kidneys
Nervous prostration	Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities
Neuralgia	Described as discomfort, such as "Headache" was neuralgia in head
Nostalgia	Homesickness
Palsy	Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles. It was listed as "Cause of death".
Paroxysm	Convulsion
Pemphigus	Skin disease of watery blisters
Pericarditis	Inflammation of heart
Peripneumonia	Inflammation of lungs
Peritonotis	Inflammation of abdominal area
Petechial Fever	Fever characterized by skin spotting
Puerperal exhaustion	Death due to child birth
Phthiriasis	Lice infestation
Phthisis	Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis
Plague	An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate
Pleurisy	Any pain in the chest area with each breath
Podagra	Gout
Poliomyelitis	Polio
Pott's disease	Tuberculosis of spine
Puerperal exhaustion	Death due to childbirth
Puerperal fever	Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant
Puking fever	Milk sickness
Putrid fever	Diphtheria
Quinsy	Tonsillitis
Remitting fever	Malaria
Rheumatism	Any disorder associated with pain in joints
Rickets	Disease of skeletal system
Rose cold	Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
Rotanny fever	(Child's disease)?
Rubeola	German measles
Sanguineous crust	Scab
Scarlatina	Scarlet fever
Scarlet fever	A disease characterized by red rash
Scarlet rash	Roseola
Sciatica	Rheumatism in the hips
Scirrhus	Cancerous tumors
Scotomy	Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight
Scrivener's palsy	Writer's cramp
Screws	Rheumatism
Scrofula	Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's disease.
Scrumpox	Skin disease, impetigo
Scurvy	Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums and hemorrhages under skin.
Septicemia	Blood poisoning
Shakes	Delirium tremens
Shaking	Chills, ague
Shingles	Viral disease with skin blisters
Ship fever	Typhus
Siriasis	Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure
Sloes	Milk sickness
Small pox	Contagious disease with fever and blisters
Softening of brain	Result of stroke or hemorrhage in the brain, with an end result of the tissue softening in that area.
Sore throat distemper	Diphtheria or quinsy
Spanish influenza	Epidemic influenza
Spasms	Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles, like a convulsion
Spina bifida	Deformity of spine
Spotted fever	Either typhus or meningitis
Sprue	Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat
St. Anthony's fire	Also erysipelas, but named so because of affected skin areas are bright red in appearance.
St. Vitas dance	Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements performed involuntary
Stomatitis	Inflammation of the mouth
Stranger's fever	Yellow fever
Strangery	Rupture
Sudor anglicus	Sweating sickness
Summer complaint	Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk
Sunstroke	Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause.
Swamp sickness	Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
Sweating sickness	Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century
Tetanus	Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness
Thrombosis	Blood clot inside blood vessel
Thrush	Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat
Tick fever	Rocky mountain spotted fever
Toxemia of pregnancy	Eclampsia
Trench mouth	Painful ulcers found along gum line. Caused by poor nutrition and poor hygiene.
Tussis convulsiva	Whooping cough
Typhus	Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness.
Variola	Smallpox
Venesection	Bleeding
Viper's dance	St. Vitus Dance
Water on brain	Enlarged head
White swelling	Tuberculosis of the bone
Winter fever	Pneumonia
Womb fever	Infection of the uterus.
Worm fit	Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea.
Yellowjacket	Yellow fever

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