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Hectical complaint - A remittent fever with stages of
chilliness, heat, and sweat; (rare) a person suffering
with tuberculosis.
Hematemesis - Vomiting blood.
Hematuria - A discharge of bloody urine.
Hemoptysis - Spitting up blood from the larynx, trachea,
bronchi, or lungs.
Herpes zoster - Shingles.
Hip gout - Osteomyelitis.
Huntington’s chorea - A nervous disorder, accompanied by
increasing mental deterioration.
Hydrocephalus - An abnormal increase in the amount of
fluid in the cranium, causing enlargement of the head
and loss of mental powers.
Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy.
Hydrophobia - Dread of water; a symptom of canine madness
(rabies).
Hydrops - Dropsy.
Hydrothorax - Dropsy in the chest; an abnormal amount of
fluid in the pleural cavity.
Hyertropy of heart - Enlargement of the heart.
Hysterotomy - A Cesarean section.
Icterus - Jaundice.
Ileus - An obstruction of the intestines resulting in
severe constipation and pain.
Impetigo - Any of certain contagious skin diseases
characterized by the eruption of pustules, caused by
staphylococci.
Infantile paralysis - Poliomylitis.
Intestinal colic - Pain throughout the abdomen, usually
caused by an improper diet.
Intussusception - The condition where part of the
intestine has slipped into another part just below it.
Jail fever - Typhus.
Jalap - A purgative medicine made from the root of the
Mexican jelap.
Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines,
characterized by yellowness of the skin, fluids, and
tissues, and by constipation, loss of appitite, and
weakness.
Lagrippe - Influenza.
Laryngismus stridulus - A condition, usually associated
with boys under the age of two afflicted with rickets,
in which the muscles of the voice box go into spasms
causing shortness of breath and a ‘crowing’ sound.
Laudanum - Any of various pain killing preparations in
which opium was the main ingredient.
Lazaretto - A hospital, building, or a ship where diseased
persons are quarantined.
Leech - A physician; a leech used for drawing blood.
Lent-evil - The ague.
Lientery - A flux of the bowels in which the aliments are
discharged undigested.
Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the
muscles of the neck and jaw. Fatal if untreated in 8
days.
Long sickness - Tuberculosis.
Lumbago - A pain in the loins and small of the back, such
as precedes certain fevers.
Lung fever - Pneumonia.
Lung sickness - Tuberculosis.
Madstone - A small porous stone which
supposedly absorbed venom from a snake bite and cured
hydrophobia (rabies).
Mania puerperium - A mental disorder
affecting new mothers.
Marasmus - A disease characterized by
progressive deterioration of body tissue, usually due to
severe malnutrition or protracted intestinal disorders.
Melanuric - Malarial fever,
black-water fever.
Membranous
croup - Diphtheria.
Menagogue - A medicine that promotes
menstrual flux.
Meningitis - Inflation of
the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.
Miasma - Poisonous vapor
formerly supposed to arise from decomposing animal or
vegetable matter, swamps, etc., and infect the air.
Midwife - A woman
experienced in the birthing process who helps other
women in the birth of a child.
Milk fever - A fever
accompanying the first flowing of milk in females after
childbirth.
Milk sickness - A
disease, once common in the western U.S., caused by
drinking the milk, eating mild products, of flesh of
cattle that have eaten any of various poisonous weeds.
Morbus - Disease.
Mormal - Gangrene.
Morphew - A scurvy eruption on the
body.
Morphine (morphinism) -
A chronic intoxication due to the habitual use of
morphine or of opium in some other form.
Myelitis - Inflammation of the spinal
cord or bone marrow.
Myocarditis - Inflammation of the
muscular walls of the heart.
Necrosis - The death of
tissue; mortification, especially of the bones.
Nephritic - A purgative
medicine to relieve or cure disorders of the kidneys,
particularly gravel or stone in the bladder.
Nephritis - Inflammation
of the kidneys.
Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration,
without signs of inflammation, due to the failure of
fluid to be passed on through the kidneys to the bladder
for disposal.
Nephrotomy - The operation of
extracting a stone from the kidney.
Nervine - A medicine for relief of
nervous disorders.
Neuralgia - An affection
of one or more nerves causing intermittent but frequent
pain.
Nostrum - A panacea or
quack medicine, the ingredients of which were kept
secret.
Onkotomy - The opening of a tumor or
abscess.
Opiate - Any medicine
that induces sleep or respite; a narcotic.
Ossification - The
formation of bone; the process of becoming or changing
into bone.
Osteopathy - A theory of
disease and method of cure based on the assumption that
loss of structural integrity of the skeleton is the
cause of most diseases.
Osteo sarcoma - A disease
or sarcoma of the bony tissue, characterized by a fleshy
growth.
Otitis - Inflammation of the ear.
Palsy - The loss or
defect of the power of voluntary muscular motion in all
or part of the body; paralysis.
Panacea - A universal
remedy for all diseases.
Pandemic - Occurring over
a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally
high proportion of the population.
Paregoric - A camphorated
tincture of opium that soothes or lessens pain.
Paroxysm - A fit of
higher excitement or emotion in a disease; convulsion.
Parrot’s bill - A
surgeon’s pincers.
Parturition - Childbirth.
Pemphigus - A skin disease
characterized by the formation of watery blisters.
Pepastic - A medicine that serves to
help digestion.
Pericarditis - Inflammation of the sac
around the heart.
Peripneumonia - Inflammation of the
lungs.
Peritonitis -
Inflammation of the peritoneum, the membrane which lines
the abdominal cavity, usually the most serious
complication of appendicitis.
Pertussis - Whooping cough.
Pesthouse - A house or hospital for
persons infected with a contagious disease.
Petechial fever - A small
red or purple spot in the skin occurring in certain
fevers.
Pharmacopoeist - A person who sells
medicines; an apothecary.
Phlebotomy - The act of
opening a vein for letting blood.
Phrenitis - Formerly inflammation of
the brain, with acute fever and delirium;
inflammation of the diaphragm.
Phthiriasis - Infestation of lice.
Phthisis - A progressive
wasting away of the body, such as tuberculosis,
pulmonary consumption, etc.
Pityriasis - A condition of the skin
characterized by the formation and falling off of
scales; dandruff.
Pleurisy - An
inflammation of the pleura (membrane) that covers the
inside of the thorax, accompanied with fever, pain, and
cough.
Podagra - Gout in the feet.
Poliomyelitis - An
inflammation of the anterior horn cells in the gray
matter of the spinal cord; infantile paralysis; polio.
Potter’s asthma - A form
of fibroid phthisis to which persons exposed to the dust
of the pottery industry are subject.
Poultice - A soft, hot,
moist substance as of flour, meal, bran, flax seed, or
similar substances, applied to sores, or inflamed parts
of the body.
Probang - An instrument of whalebone
and sponge used for removing obstructions in the throat.
Prostatitis - Inflammation of the
prostate gland.
Psoas abscess - An
abscess of the loin muscle, usually associated with
tuberculosis.
Puerperal exhaustion -
The condition of which a woman died during childbirth.
Puerperal fever -Childbed
fever; septic poisoning which sometimes occurred during
childbirth.
Puerperium - A woman’s confinement
during and immediately after childbirth.
Puking fever - Milk
sickness.
Putrid fever- A name for
typhus fever or diphtheria.
Quinine - A bitter,
crystalline alkaloid, extracted from cinchona bark, used
especially in the treatment of malaria.
Quinsy - An inflammation
of the tonsils accompanied by the formation of pus.
Remitting fever -
Malaria.
Revulsion - The act of
diverting humors or any cause of disease from one part
of the body to another.
Rheumatism - A painful
disease affecting muscles and joints, chiefly the larger
joints.
Rickets - A disease of
the skeletal system resulting from a deficiency of
calcium or vitamin D in the diet, or from lack of
sunlight.
Rigor - A stiffness and
rigidity of the body which does not respond to stimuli;
shivering or trembling with a chill preceding a fever.
Rubeola - German measles.
Sanguinous crust - A
scab.
Sarcoma - Cancer.
Saxifrage - A medicine
that has the property of dissolving stones in the
bladder.
Scarlatina - Scarlet fever; commonly
referred to as the canker rash.
Scarlet fever - A disease
in which the body is covered with a red rash first
appearing on the neck and breast, and accompanied by a
sore throat.
Scarlet rash - Roseola.
Sciatica - Rheumatism in
the hip.
Scirrhus - A cancerous tumor on any
part of the body, usually made up of fibrous
connective tissue.
Scotomy - Dizziness or nausea, with
dimness of sight.
Scaldhead - A scab infection of the
head.
Scrivener’s palsy -
Writer’s cramp.
Scrofula - A disease,
called the King’s Evil, characterized by tumors in the
glands of the neck; tuberculosis of lymph glands.
Scrumpox - A pustular disease of the
skin; impetigo.
Scurvy - A disease
characterized by great debility, a pale bloated face,
and bleeding spongy gums, indicant to persons who live
confined, or on salted meats without fresh vegetables.
Septicemia - Blood
poisoning.
Sequela - A diseased condition
resulting from a previous sickness.
Shakes - A convulsive
trembling, often accompanying intermittent fever,
alcoholism, etc.
Shaking - The ague; a
chill.
Shingles - An acute viral
disease marked by small blisters on the skin along the
course of a nerve.
Ship fever - A form of
typhus fever.
Sirasis - An inflammation of the
brain, caused by excessive heat of the sun; a frenzy
peculiar to children.
Sloes - Milk sickness.
Small pox - Contagious
disease with fever and blisters.
Smoker’s patch - A
smooth, white patch on the tongue due to excessive
smoking.
Softening of the brain -
Apoplexy.
Spanish influenza -
Pandemic influenza.
Spina Bifida - A
deformity of the base of the spine.
Spital - A hospital for the very poor
and those having leprosy or other loathsome diseases.
Spittle - A hospital.
Spotted fever -
Cerebrospinal meningitis fever, characterized by
inflammation of the cerebrospinal membranes; typhus.
Sprue - A chronic tropical disease
characterized by anemia, gastrointestinal disorders,
sore throat, etc.
Stomatitis - Inflammation
of the mucous membrane of the mouth.
Stranger’s fever - Yellow
fever.
Strangury - A difficult and painful
discharge of urine.
Struma - Goiter or scrofula.
Sudor Anglicus - Sweating sickness.
Summer complaint -
Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk.
Surgeon - A person who
served as a barber, as well as one who practiced
medicine.
Sweating sickness - An
acute, infectious, rapidly fatal disease epidemic in
England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Syncope - A fainting or
loss of consciousness caused by a temporary deficiency
of blood to the brain.
Syphilitica - Pertaining to the
disease syphilis.
Tabes - Slow progressive
emaciation of the body or its parts.
Tansy - A bitter and
aromatic plant, used to reduce fever.
Tartar emetic - A
poisonous, white, crystalline salt used to increase
perspiration and cause coughing, spitting, and vomiting.
Tetanus - An infectious
disease which attacks the muscles of the neck and lower
jaw, caused by the tetanus bacillus, a germ which
ordinarily infests the intestines of cattle or horses.
Tetter - Any of various skin diseases,
such as eczema and impetigo.
Thrombosis - A clot
formation inside a blood vessel.
Thrush - A disease,
usually contracted by children, caused by a fungus and
characterized by milky-white lesions on the membranes of
the mouth, lips, and throat.
Tincture- A substance
with medicinal properties, usually in an alcoholic
solvent.
Trembles - A disease of
cattle and sheep caused by eating any of various
poisonous weeds and characterized by muscular tremors
and a stumbling gait.
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.
Typhus -Infectious fever
characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness.
Ulceration - Loss of the
surface covering, such as of skin or the mucous lining,
of the intestine.
Varioloid - A mild form of variola
(smallpox) occurring in a person who has had a previous
attack or who has been vaccinated.
Venesection - The opening of a vein
for letting blood; phlebotomy.
Vermifuge - Serving to expel worms and
other parasites from the intestinal tract.
Wasting - Destructive to
health or vigor, as a disease; wasting palsy;
progressive muscular atrophy.
Whooping cough - A
disease characterized by a convulsive cough, and
infecting the mucous membrane of the respiratory system.
Winter fever - Pneumonia.
Worm fit - Infantile
convulsions, usually a reflex action associated with
teething, worms, rickets, fever, or diarrhea.
Worms - Any of the
various ailments caused by the working of a worm or
resulting in a worm shaped tumor or
growth.
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