DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS
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