Ablepsy - Blindness

Ague - Flu-like symptoms likely caused by malaria

Aphonia - Laryngitis

Atheronia - Carotid Arteries

Bad blood - Syphillis

Barrel fever - Alcoholism

Bilious fever - Yellow fever

Biliousness - Jaundice

Black dog - Depression

Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate

Black jaundice - Wiel's Disease; Black Water fever (deadly form of malaria)

Black lung - Inflammation of the lungs as a result of breathing coal dust

Black plague or death - Bubonic plague

Bone shave - Sciatica

Brain fever - Meningitis

Bright's disease - Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys

Cachexy - Malnutrition

Canker Rash - Scarlet fever

Catalepsy - Seizures / trances

Chalkstones - Swelling with pain that probably was caused by rheumatoid arthritis or gout

Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child

Chin cough - Whooping cough

Chlorosis - Iron deficiency anemia; leukemia

Cholelithiasis - Gallstones

Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing

Cholera morbus - Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. could be appendicitis

Commotion - Concussion

Congestive chills/ fever - Malaria

Consumption - Tuberculosis

Corruption - Infection

Cramp colic - Appendicitis

Croup - Marked by episodes of difficult breathing and low-pitched cough resembling the bark of a seal

Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder

Debility - Lack of movement or staying in bed

Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age

Delirium tremens - Hallucinations due to alcoholism

Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat

Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease

Dropsy of the Brain - Encephalitis

Dysentery - Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood

Eclampsy - Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor

Edema - Nephrosis; swelling of tissues

Edema of lungs - Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy

Encephalitis - Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness

Enteric fever - Typhoid fever

Falling sickness - Epilepsy

Fatty liver - Cirrhosis of liver

Flux - An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea

French pox / Great pox - Syphilis

Green sickness or green fever -Anemia

Grippe/grip - Influenza like symptoms

Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of body

Horrors - A shuddering or shivering as symptomatic of a fever, or a fit of depression or fright as occurs with mental delirium

Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain

Ileocolitis - Crohn's disease

Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines

Kruchhusten - Whooping cough

Lagrippe - Flu / Influenza

Leprosy -Hansen's disease

Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days

Lumbago - Back pain

Lung fever - Pneumonia

Lung sickness - Tuberculosis

Mania - Insanity

Meningitis - Inflation of brain or spinal cord

Mortification or Mormal - Gangrene

Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration

Nepritis - Inflammation of kidneys

Palsy - Problems with muscle control, such as tremors or paralysis

Phthisis - Tuberculosis

Puerperal convulsions - Epilepsy

Quinsy - Abscess behind tonsils - tonsillitis

Rodent ulcer - Basal cell carcinoma

Scarlatina - Scarlet fever

Scirrhus - Cancerous tumors

Screws - Rheumatism

Scurvy - Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums and hemorrhages under skin

Senility - Dementia

Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters

St. Vitus's dance - Another name for chorea, a disorder marked by involuntary spasms of the limbs and facial muscles

Summer complaint - Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk

Tetanus - Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness

The shakes -Parkinson's disease

Thrombosis - Blood clot inside blood vessel

Trench mouth - apathos ulcers or a virus disease

Thrush - Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat

Tuberculosis - Bacterial infection that primarily attacks the lungs, but which may also affect the kidneys, bones, lymph nodes, and brain. Symptoms of TB include

coughing, chest pain, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, weight loss, fever, chills, and fatigue.

Tussis convulsiva - Whooping cough

Typhus - Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness

Volvulus - Bowel obstruction

Winter fever - Pneumonia