Old Term | Modern Description |
Apoplexy | Stroke |
Atrophy of liver | Any kind of wasting or diminshed function and could be applied to other organs |
Bad blood | Syphilis |
Blood poisoning | Septicemia |
Bright's disease | Kidney disease |
Chincough | Whooping cough |
Consumption | Tuberculosis, pulmonary |
Cretinism | Hypothyroidism, congenital |
Croup | Hoarse croaking cough associated with inflammation of the larynx and trachea in children. |
Dropsy | Congestive heart failure or any other condition which leads to a build up of fluid (Oedema). |
Fatty liver | Cirrhosis |
General paralysis of the insane | Tertiary syphilis |
Glandular fever | Mononucleosis |
Grippe | Influenza (Flu) |
Jail fever | Typhus |
Kink | Fit of coughing or choking |
Lock jaw | Tetanus |
Lung fever | Tuberculosis |
Plague/Black death | Bubonic plague |
Podagra | Gout |
Pott's disease | Tuberculosis of the spinal vertebrae |
Phthisis | Wasting of the body or pulmonary tuberculosis |
Quinsy | Acute suppurative tonsillitis; peritonsillar abscess. An acute inflammation of the tonsils with the formation of pus. |
Scarlet Fever | Acute infectious fever caused by haemolytic streptococcus infection in the throat |
Scrofula | Tuberculosis of the neck lymph nodes |
Toxemia of pregnancy | Eclampsia (high blood pressure & seizures) |