Uvalde County Diseases

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Old Disease or Medical Condition
You won't recognize most of these names!

DISEASE---CURRENT NAME OR SYMPTOM

Ablepsy - Blindness

Ague - Malarial Fever

American Plague - Yellow fever

Aphonia - Laryngitis

Aphtha - The infant disease "thrush".

Apoplexy- Stroke with paralysis

Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke

Bad Blood - Syphilis

Black Plague - Bubonic plague

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

Black Pox - Black Small pox

Black Vomit - Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever.

Blackwater Fever - Dark urine associated with high temperature

Bladder in Throat - Diphtheria

Blood Poisoning - Bacterial infection, septicemia

Bone Shave - Sciatica

Brain Fever - Meningitis

Bright's Disease - Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys

Bronze John - Yellow fever

Bule- Boil, tumor or swelling

Cachexy - Malnutrition

Camp fever - Typhus, Camp diarrhea

Canker - Mouth ulcers or herpes simplex

Catalepsy - Seizures/Trances

Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning

Chilblian - swelling of limbs from exposure to cold.

Child Bed Fever - Infection following birth of a child

Chin Cough - Whooping cough

Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing

Cholelithiasis - Gall Stones

Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing

Cold Plague - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing

Colic - An abdominal pain and cramping

Congestive Chills - Malaria

Congestive Fever - Malaria Consumption

Consumption - Tuberculosis

Corruption - Infection

Costiveness - Constipation

Cramp Colic - Appendicitis

Crop Sickness - Overextended stomach

Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat

Cystitis - Inflamed bladder

Day Fever- Fever lasting one day, sweating sickness

Debility - Lack of movement or staying in bed

Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age

Delirium Tremens- Hallucinations due to alcholism

Dengue Infectious Fever of East Africa

Diary Fever - A fever that lasts only one day

Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat

Distemper- Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia

Dock Fever - Yellow fever

Dropsy - Edema/Swelling, often caused by kidney or heart disease

Dropsy of the Brain- Encephalitis

Dry Bellyache- Lead poisoning

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

Dyspepsia- Heartburn and indegestion

Ecstasy- A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason

Edema - Nephrosis, swelling of tissues

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

Elephantiasis - A form of leprosy

Encephalitis - Swelling of brain, aka sleeping sickness

Enteric Fever - Typhoid fever

Falling Sickness - Epilepsy

Fits - Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity

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

French Pox - Syphilis

Gathering - A collection of pus

Great pox - Syphilis

Green Fever - Anemia

Grippe - Symptoms of flu

Grocer's Itch- Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour

Heart Sickness - Condition caused by loss of salt from body

Heat Stroke - Body temperature elevates because of surrounding environment temperature and body does not perspire to reduce temperature. Coma and death result if not reversed

Horrors - Delirium tremens

Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain

Hydrophobia - - Rabies

Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest

Hypertrophic - Enlargement of organ, like the heart

Impetigo - Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules

Infantile Paralysis - Polio

Jail Fever - Typhus

Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines

King's Evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands

Kruchhusten - Whooping cough

Lagrippe - Influenza

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

Long Sickness - Tuberculosis

Lues Disease - Syphilis

Lues Venera - Venereal

Lumbago - Back pain

Lung Fever - Pneumonia

Lung Sickness - Tuberculosis

Malignant Sore Throat/Membranous Croup - Diphtheria

Mania - Insanity

Meningitis - Inflation of brain or spinal cord

Metritis - Pruelent vaginal discharge or inflamed uterus

Milk Fever - Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant fever or brucellosis

Milk Leg - Post partum thrombophlebitis

Milk sickness - Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds

Mormal - Gangrene

Mortification - Gangrene of necrotic tissue

Necrosis - Mortification of bones or tissue

Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration

Nepritis - Inflammation of kidneys

Neuralgia - Pain in head or neck - headache

Palsy - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles

Paroxysm - Convulsion

Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters

Pericarditis - Inflammation of heart

Peritonotis - Inflammation of abdominal area

Podagra - Gout

Phthiriasis - Lice infestation

Plague - An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate

Pleurisy - Any pain in the chest area with each breath

Poliomyelitis - PolioPotter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis

Pott's Disease - Tuberculosis of spine

Puking Fever - Milk sickness

Putrid Fever - Diphtheria

Quinsy - Tonsillitis

Remitting Fever - Malaria

Rheumatism - Any disorder associated with pain in joints

Rickets - Disease of skeletal system

Rose Cold - Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy

Rubeola - German measles

Scarlatina - Scarlet fever

Scarlet Fever - A disease characterized by red rash

Scarlet Rash - Roseola

Sciatica - Rheumatism in the hips

Scirrhus - Malignany tumors

Screws - Rheumatism

Scrofula - Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's disease.

Scrumpox - Impetigo

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

Septicemia - Blood poisoning

Shakes - Delirium tremers

Shingles - Viral disease with skin blisters

Ship Fever - Typhus

Siriasis- - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure

Sloes - Milk sickness

Small Pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters

Spanish Influenza - Epidemic influenza

Spasms - Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles, like a convulsion

Spina Bifida - Deformity of spine

Spotted Fever - Either typhus or meningitis

Sprue - Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat

St Anthony's Fire - Also erysipelas, but named so because of affected skin areas are bright red in appearance

St. Vitas Dance - Involuntery occurrence rapid jerking

St Vitas Dance - Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements performed involuntary

Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth

Stranger's Fever - Yellow fever

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

Sunstroke - Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause

Swamp Sickness - Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis

Sweating Sickness - Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century

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

Thrombosis - Blood clot inside blood vessel

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

Trench Mouth - xxxxx

Tick Fever - Rocky mountain spotted fever

Trench Mouth - Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor nutrition and poor hygiene

Tussis Convulsiva - Whooping cough

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

Variola - Smallpox

Viper's Dance - St. Vitus Dance

Water on Brain - Enlarged head

White Swelling - Tuberculosis of the bone

Winter Fever - Pneumonia

Womb Fever - Infection of the uterus

Worm Fit - Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature, or diarrhea

Yellowjacket - Yellow fever