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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