OBSOLETE MEDICAL TERMS

AGUE -	Used to describe recurring fever and chills of malaria; can mean any fever with chills
APHONIA -	Laryngitis
BILIOUSNESS -	Jaundice or other symptoms associated with liver disease
BLOODY FLUX -	Dysentery (bloody diarrhea); etiolgy depends on area; shigella; salmonella; amoeba; typhoid; typus; etc.
BRAIN FEVER -	Meningitis, encephalitis
CAMP FEVER -	Typhus
CANINE MADNESS -	Hydrophobia (rabies)
CHLOROSIS -	Iron deficiency anemia
CHOLERA INFANTUM	Summer diarrhea of infants usually the first summer after weaning from breast feeding
CORRUPTION -	Infection
CORYZA -	A cold
COSTIVENESS -	Constipation
CRAMP COLIC -	Appendicitis
CREEPING PARALYSIS -	Tabes dorsalis (syphilis)
DENTITION -	Infantile convulsions; bebrile seizures; ?infected dental caries (cavities); ?mercury poisoning from teething powders
DEBILITY -	"Failure to thrive" in infancy or old age or loss of appetite and weight from undiagnosed T.B. or cancer.
DROPSY -	Edema (swelling), sometimes caused by kidney or heart disease.
DYSPEPSIA -	Acid indigestion
ECLAMPSIA -	Convlusions of any cause; later applied more specific
EXTRAVASTED BLOOD -	Rupture of blood vessel
FALLING SICKNESS -	Epilepsy
FLUS OF HUMOUR -	Circulation
FRENCH POX -	Venereal disease
GALLOPING CONSUMPTION -	Rapidly progressing tuberculosis
GREEN SICKNESS -	Anemia
HEMORRHAGE AND INFLAMMATION -	Ruptured aneurysmm or swollen lymph nodes or superficial cancer with ulceration and bleeding; swollen lymph nodes from chronic infection, such as T. B., brucella, anthrax, staphylococcus, etc.
HIP GOUT -	Osteomyelitis
JAIL FEVER -	Typhus
KING'S EVIL -	Scrofula (T.B. of lymph glands, especially of neck)
LUES VENERA -	Venereal disease
LUMBAGO -	Back pain
LUNG FEVER -	Pneumonia
LUNG SICKNESS -	Tuberculosis
MALIGNANT FEVER -	Fever with hemolysis; malaria with hemmorrhagic skin rash; meningoccoccal infection; putrid malignant fever; typhoid.
MANIA -	Insanity
MARASMUS & DROPSY OF THE BRAIN -	Hydrocephalus and wasting of the body
MILK LEG -	Thrombosis in femoral vein, often after childbirth; death from pulmonary embolism or pelvic infection (usual cause for milk leg)
MORTIFICATION -	Gangrene usually of the leg; trauma; infection; diabetes; aneurysm of aorta
NOSTALGIA -	Homesickness
A PERIPNEUMONY -	Pneumonia plus pleurisy (inflammation of the pleura usually with fever, painful & difficult respiration, cough and fluid into the pleural cavity)
PUTRID FEVER -	Diptheria
PUTRID SORE THROAT -	Gangrenous pharyngitis; tonsillitis with peritonsillar or retropharyngeal abscess.
QUINSY -	Tonsillitis
REMITTING FEVER -	Malaria
ROSE COLD -	Hay fever incorrectly thought to be caused by rose pollen.
SANGUINOUS CRUST -	Scab
SCREWS -	Rheumatism
SCROFULA -	See KING'S EVIL
SHIP'S FEVER -	Typhus
SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN -	Dementia (Syphilitic or non-syphilitic); cerebral hemorrhage; stroke
STOMACH TROUBLE -	Complication of gastric ulcer perforation plus pancreatitis, hemorrhage, cancer.
STRANGERY -	Rupture
SUMMER COMPLAINT -	Diarrhea and vomiting; gastroenteritis
THROAT DISTEMPER -	Tonsillitis; diptheria
VENESECTION -	Bleeding