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Ablepsy - Blindness
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Ague - Malarial Fever
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American plague - Yellow fever
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Anasarca - Generalized massive edema
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Aphonia - Laryngitis
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Aphtha - The infant disease "thrush"
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Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke
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Asphycsia/Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen
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Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size.
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Bad Blood - Syphilis
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Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and
bile emesis
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Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease
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Black plague or death - Bubonic plague
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Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin
lesions and high mortality rate
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Black pox - Black Small pox
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Black vomit - Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever
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Blackwater fever - Dark urine associated with high temperature
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Bladder in throat - Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates)
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Blood poisoning - Bacterial infection; septicemia
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Bloody flux - Bloody stools
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Bloody sweat - Sweating sickness
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Bone shave - Sciatica
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Brain fever - Meningitis
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Breakbone - Dengue fever
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Bright's disease - Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
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Bronze John - Yellow fever
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Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling
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Cachexy - Malnutrition
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Cacogastric - Upset stomach
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Cacospysy - Irregular pulse
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Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy
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Camp fever - Typhus; aka Camp diarrhea
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Canine madness - Rabies, hydrophobia
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Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
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Catalepsy - Seizures / trances
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Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy
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Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
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Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold
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Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child
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Chin cough - Whooping cough
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Chlorosis - Iron deficiency anemia
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Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining
sloughing
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Cholera morbus - Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps,
elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis
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Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder
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Cholelithiasis - Gall stones
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Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing
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Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills
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Colic - An abdominal pain and cramping
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Congestive chills - Malaria
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Consumption - Tuberculosis
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Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs
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Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea
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Congestive fever - Malaria
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Corruption - Infection
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Coryza - A cold
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Costiveness - Constipation
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Cramp colic - Appendicitis
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Crop sickness - Overextended stomach
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Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat
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Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood
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Cynanche - Diseases of throat
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Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder
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Day fever - Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness
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Debility - Lack of movement or staying in bed
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Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age
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Delirium tremens - Hallucinations due to alcoholism
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Dengue - Infectious fever endemic to East Africa
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Dentition - Cutting of teeth
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Deplumation - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss
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Diary fever - A fever that lasts one day
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Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat
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Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and
throat, anorexia
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Dock fever - Yellow fever
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Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease
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Dropsy of the Brain - Encephalitis
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Dry Bellyache - Lead poisoning
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Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition
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Dysentery - Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and
blood
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Dysorexy - Reduced appetite
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Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms
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Dysury - Difficulty in urination
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Eclampsy - Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor
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Ecstasy - A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason
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Edema - Nephrosis; swelling of tissues
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Edema of lungs - Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy
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Eel thing - Erysipelas
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Elephantiasis - A form of leprosy
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Encephalitis - Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness
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Enteric fever - Typhoid fever
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Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines
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Enteritis - Inflations of the bowels
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Epitaxis - Nose bleed
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Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular
and bulbous lesions
Extravasted blood - Rupture of a blood vessel
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Falling sickness - Epilepsy
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Fatty Liver - Cirrhosis of liver
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Fits - Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity
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Flux - An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or
diarrhea
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Flux of humour - Circulation
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French pox - Syphilis
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Gathering - A collection of pus
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Glandular fever - Mononucleosis
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Great pox - Syphilis
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Green fever / sickness - Anemia
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Grippe/grip - Influenza like symptoms
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Grocer's itch - Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour
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Heart sickness - Condition caused by loss of salt from body
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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
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Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever
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Hematemesis - Vomiting blood
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Hematuria - Bloody urine
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Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of body
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Hip gout - Osteomylitis
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Horrors - Delirium tremens
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Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain
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Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy
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Hydrophobia - Rabies
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Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest
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Hypertrophic - Enlargement of organ, like the heart
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Impetigo - Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules
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Inanition - Physical condition resulting from lack of food
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Infantile paralysis - Polio
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Intestinal colic - Abdominal pain due to improper diet
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Jail fever - Typhus
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Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines
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King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands
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Kruchhusten - Whooping cough
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Lagrippe - Influenza
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Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of
the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days
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Long sickness - Tuberculosis
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Lues disease - Syphilis
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Lues venera - Venereal disease
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Lumbago - Back pain
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Lung fever - Pneumonia
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Lung sickness - Tuberculosis
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Lying in - Time of delivery of infant
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Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria
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Mania - Insanity
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Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition
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Membranous Croup - Diphtheria
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Meningitis - Inflations of brain or spinal cord
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Metritis - Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge
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Miasma - Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air
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Milk fever - Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant
fever or brucellosis
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Milk leg - Post partum thrombophlebitis
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Milk sickness - Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous
weeds
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Mormal - Gangrene
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Morphew - Scurvy blisters on the body
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Mortification - Gangrene of necrotic tissue
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Myelitis - Inflammation of the spine
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Myocarditis - Inflammation of heart muscles
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Necrosis - Mortification of bones or tissue
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Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration
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Nephritis - Inflammation of kidneys
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Nervous prostration - Extreme exhaustion from inability to control
physical and mental activities
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Neuralgia - Described as discomfort, such as "Headache" was neuralgia in
head
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Nostalgia - Homesickness
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Palsy - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles.
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Paroxysm - Convulsion
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Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters
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Pericarditis - Inflammation of heart
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Peripneumonia - Inflammation of lungs
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Peritonotis - Inflammation of abdominal area
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Petechial Fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting
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Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to child birth
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Phthiriasis - Lice infestation
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Phthisis - Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis
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Plague - An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality
rate
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Pleurisy - Any pain in the chest area with each breath
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Podagra - Gout
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Poliomyelitis - Polio Potter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis
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Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of spine
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Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to childbirth
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Puerperal fever - Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant
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Puking fever - Milk sickness
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Putrid fever - Diphtheria.
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Quinsy - Tonsillitis.
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Remitting fever - Malaria
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Rheumatism - Any disorder associated with pain in joints
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Rickets - Disease of skeletal system
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Rose cold - Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
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Rotanny fever - (Child's disease) ???
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Rubeola - German measles
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Sanguineous crust - Scab
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Scarlatina - Scarlet fever
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Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by red rash
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Scarlet rash - Roseola
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Sciatica - Rheumatism in the hips
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Scirrhus - Cancerous tumors
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Scotomy - Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight
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Scrivener's palsy - Writer's cramp
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Screws - Rheumatism
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Scrofula - Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with
abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's disease
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Scrumpox - Skin disease, impetigo
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Scurvy - Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums
and hemorrhages under skin
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Septicemia - Blood poisoning
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Shakes - Delirium tremens
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Shaking - Chills, ague
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Shingles - Viral disease with skin blisters
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Ship fever - Typhus
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Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure
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Sloes - Milk sickness
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Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters
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Softening of brain - Result of stroke or hemorrhage in the brain, with
an end result of the tissue softening in that area
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Sore throat distemper - Diphtheria or quinsy
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Spanish influenza - Epidemic influenza
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Spasms - Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles,
like a convulsion
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Spina bifida - Deformity of spine
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Spotted fever - Either typhus or meningitis
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Sprue - Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore
throat
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St. Anthony's fire - Also erysipelas, but named so because of affected
skin areas are bright red in appearance
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St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking
movements performed involuntary
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Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth
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Stranger's fever - Yellow fever
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Strangery - Rupture
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Sudor anglicus - Sweating sickness
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Summer complaint - Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk
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Sunstroke - Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to
environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause
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Swamp sickness - Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
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Sweating sickness - Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th
century
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Tetanus - Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache
and dizziness
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Thrombosis - Blood clot inside blood vessel
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Thrush - Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and
throat
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Tick fever - Rocky mountain spotted fever
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Toxemia of pregnancy - Eclampsia
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Trench mouth - Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor
nutrition and poor hygiene
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Tussis convulsiva - Whooping cough
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Typhus - Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and
dizziness
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Variola - Smallpox
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Venesection - Bleeding
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Viper's dance - St. Vitus Dance
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Water on brain - Enlarged head
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White swelling - Tuberculosis of the bone
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Winter fever - Pneumonia
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Womb fever - Infection of the uterus.
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Worm fit - Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated
temperature or diarrhea
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Yellowjacket - Yellow fever.
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