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• Day Fever: fever lasting one day; sweating sickness

• Debility: lack of movement or staying in bed

• Decrepitude: feebleness due to old age

• Delirium tremens: hallucinations due to alchoholism

• Dengue: infectious fever endemic to East Africa

• Dentition: cutting of teeth

• Deplumation: tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss

• Diary Fever: fever that lasts one day

• Diptheria: contagious disease of the throat

• Distemper: usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia

• Dock Fever: Yellow Fever

• Dropsy: edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease

• Dropsy of the Brain: Encephalitis

• Dry Bellyache: lead poisoning

• Dyscrasy: abnormal body condition

• Dysentery: inflamation of colon with frequent passage

• Dysorexy: reduced appetite of mucous and blood

• Dyspepsia: indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms

• Dysury: difficulty in urination

• Eclampsy: symptoms of epilepsy; convulsions during labor

• Ecstasy: form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason

• Edema: nephrosis; swelling of tissues

• Edema of Lungs: congestive heart failure, form of dropsy

• Eel Thing: erysipelas

• Elephantiasis: form of leprosy

• Encephalitis: swelling of brain; sleeping sickness

• Enteric Fever: Typhoid Fever

• Enterocolitis: inflamation of the intestines

• Enteritis: inflamationof the bowels

• Epitaxis: nose bleed

• Erysipelas: contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions

• Extravasted Blood: rupture of a blood vessel
  

Source: Provided by Dan Burrows

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