L

Lagrippe: influenza

Lockjaw: tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw; untreated it is fatal in 8 days

Long Sickness: tuberculosis

Lues Disease: syphilis

Lues Venera: veneral disease

Lumbago: back pain

Lung Fever: pneumonia

Lung Sickness: tuberculosis

Lying In: time of delivery of infant

M

Malignant Sore Throat: diphtheria

Mania: insanity

Marasmus:  progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition

Membranous Croup: diphtheria

Meningitis: inflations of brain or spinal cord

Metritis: inflamation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge

Miasma: poisonous vapors thought to infect the air

Milk Fever: disease from drinking contaminated milk like undulant fever or brucellosis

Milk Leg: post partum thrombophlebitis

Milk Sickness: disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds

Mormal: gangrene

Morphew: scurvy blisters on the body

Mortification: gangrene of necrotic tissue

Myelitis: inflamation of the spine

Myocarditis: inflamation of heart muscles

N

Necrosis: mortification of bones or tissue

Nephrosis: kidney degeneration

Nepritis: inflamation of kidneys

Nervous Prostration: extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities

Neuralgia: described as discomfort, such as headache was neuralgia in head

Nostalgia: homesickness

Source: Provided by Dan Burrows

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