CABARRUS COUNTY

NORTH CAROLINA

American History & Genealogy Project

DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS

A - B

  • Ablepsy: blindness
  • Ague: malarial fever
  • American Plague: yellow fever
  • Anasarca: generalized massive edema
  • Aphonia: laryngitis
  • Aphtha: 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 Fever: acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate.
  • Black Plague: bubonic plague
  • 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
  • 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 inflamatory disease of kidneys
  • Bronze John: yellow fever
  • Bule: boil, tumor or swelling

Source: Provided by Dan Burrows

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