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                   MEDICAL TERMS FROM THE LATE 18TH CENTURY

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    AGUE: used to define the recurring fever & chills of malarial infection
    APHONIA: laryngitis
    BILIOUSNES: jaundice or other symptoms associated with liver disease
    CAMP FEVER: typhus
    CANINE MADDNESS: hydrophobia
    CHLOROSIS: iron deficency anemia
    CORRUPTION: infection
    CORYZA: a cold
    COSTIVENNESS:  constipation
    CRAMP COLIC: appenditis
    DROPSEY: edwma (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease
    DYSEPSIA:  acid indigestion
    EXTRAVASTED BLOOD: rupture of a blood vessel
    FALLING SICKNESS: epilepsy
    FLUS OF HUMOR: circulation
    FRENCH POX: veneral disease
    GREEN SICKNESS:  anemia
    HIP GOUT:  osteomylitis
    JAIL FEVER: typhus
    KINGS EVIL: tubercular infection of the throat lymph glands
    LA GRIPPE: flu
    LUES VENERA: veneral disease
    LUMBAGO: back pain
    LUNG FEVER: pneumonia
    LUNG SICKNESS: tuberculosis
    MANIA: insanity
    MORTIFICATION: infection
    NOSTALIA: homesickness
    PUTRID FEVER: diptheria
    QUINSY: toncillitis
    REMITTING FEVER:  malaria
    SANGUINOUS CRUST: scab
    SCREWS: rheumatism
    SCROFULA: see KINGS EVIL
    SHIPS FEVER: typhus
    STRANGERY: rupture
    SUMMER COMPLAIN: baby diarrhea caused by spoiled milk
    VENESECTION: bleeding

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