DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS
A
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
B
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