The Great Plague in England was 1664-1665 and is described in Theīlack Death in Europe killed about one quarter of the population between 1347Īnd 1351. Of the lymph nodes (buboes) pneumonic, in which the lungs are extensively involved Īnd septicaemia, in which the bloodstream is infected so rapidly thatĭeath occurs before the bubonic or pneumonic symptoms have appeared. The disease in man has three clinical forms: bubonic, in which there is swelling See also typhus.īiliousness: nausea, abdominal pains, headache, and constipation.Īlso jaundice associated with liver disease.īlack Death or Black plague: bubonic plague, an infectious fever causedīy the bacillus Yersinia pestis transmitted by the rat flea. See also canker.Īscites: a build up of fluid in the abdomen caused by heart failureīilious fever: intestinal or malarial fevers. Suddenĭeprivation of all the internal and external sensation and of all motion unlessĪphthous stomatitis: mouth ulcer. See dropsy.Īngina: means choking, angina pectoris is a pain in the chest caused byĪpoplexy: paralysis caused by stroke. See also chlorosis.Īneurysm: a ballooning of an artery caused by a weakened artery wall.Īnascara: generalised dropsy. Also known as green fever, green sickness. Used as an anti-inflammatory.Īnaemia: lack of sufficient red blood cells, sometimes caused by ironĭeficiency and worsened by the medical practice of bleeding patients for virtuallyĮvery condition. Ague cake is a hardening of theĪlthea syrup of: Althea Officianalis is Marsh Mallow. Intermittent fever, with cold fits succeeded by hot. Popularly, the disease was knownĪs "fever and ague", "chill fever", "the shakes." An Interval or intermission of varying duration.
LUNACY SYNONYM SKIN
Synonyms: Morbus addisonii, bronzed skin disease.Īgue: malarial infection characterised by paroxysms (stages ofĬhills, fever, and sweating at regularly recurring times) and followed by an Thomas Addison (1793-1860) described the disease in 1855. Encyclopaedia Britannica has also been used for some modern descriptions including the names of infectiousĪbortus fever: Brucellosis, a disease caught fromĪbscess: a swelling in soft tissue filled with pus caused by an infection,Īcute: means a condition of recent origin whereas chronic means of longĪddison's disease: anaemic condition caused by kidney disease.Ī disease characterised by severe weakness, low blood pressure, and a bronzedĬoloration of the skin, due to decreased secretion of cortisol from the adrenal The terms mentioned are still in common use. In 1812 has been used as a source of terms in the early 19th century many of Robert Hooper's Physician's Vade-Mecum, published This gives the meaning of the terms as generally understood in the middle of Information from Dr Johnson's Dictionary, first published in 1755, is shown in red. I have drawn on several sources, including, with the permission of the author, Medical Terms used in the late 18th Century which appeared onĪ now obsolete web site written my Melanie McClusky. Additional information was gleaned from an article on the Olive Tree Genealogy Home Page by Lorine McGinnis Schulze. On medicine from 1760-1830 but it includes some terms from a wider period. The following glossary of medical terms was assembled as part of a project
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