Early Terms for Diseases
- Aguesearch for term
Intermittent chills and fever (as in malaria).
- Apoplexysearch for term
Sudden paralysis, perhaps by stroke, or bleed into the brain or other organ.
b- Black Deathsearch for term
Bubonic plague.
- Brightís Diseasesearch for term
Kidney disease which is accompanied by fluid retention and often kidney failure (described by Sir Richard Bright).
c- Catameniasearch for term
menstruation.
- Cataplexysearch for term
"Shock" by fright.
- Catarrhsearch for term
Upper respiratory tract infection, mucous.
- Cholerasearch for term
Any infectious disease that is epidemic.
- Clap, Dripsearch for term
Gonorrhea.
- Consumptionsearch for term
Tuberculosis.
d- Dropsysearch for term
Fluid retention (from heart, liver, or kidney disease).
- Dystociasearch for term
Difficult delivery.
f- Falling Sicknesssearch for term
Epilepsy.
- French (or great) Pox, Luessearch for term
Syphilis.
- Furunclesearch for term
Boil.
g- Gleetsearch for term
Chronic gonorrhea.
- Grippesearch for term
Influenza.
h- Humorsearch for term
Any secreted bodily fluid.
- Hydrophobiasearch for term
Rabies (with apparent fear of water).
k- King's Evilsearch for term
Scrofula, or tuberculosis of the lymph nodes in the neck.
l- Laudable Pussearch for term
Purulent discharge from a wound -- thought to be a good sign.
m- Mad as a Hattersearch for term
Mental changes from mercury poisoning (formerly used by hat makers).
- Maniasearch for term
Insanity.
- Miasmasearch for term
'Diseased' air that causes illness.
o- Oedema (edema)search for term
Fluid retention and swelling.
p- Palsysearch for term
Difficulty in muscular control.
- Physiksearch for term
Medication, or the Practice of Medicine (G. physikos, natural or physical).
- Pilessearch for term
Hemorrhoids.
q- Quinsysearch for term
Tonsillar abscess.
s- Shaking Palsysearch for term
Parkinson's disease.
- Spermatorrhea (Onanism)search for term
Nocturnal discharge, masturbation.
t- Tokologysearch for term
The study of women's diseases.