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A quick reference to some of the medical terms used on your ancestors record of death

A		G
Ablepsy	Blindness	Gathering	A collection of pus
Ague	Malaria Fever	Glandular Fever	Mononucleosis
American Plague	Yellow Fever	Great Pox	Syphilis
Anasarca	Generalized massive edema	Green Fever/Sickness	Anemia
Apoplexy	Paralysis due to stroke	Grippe/Grip	Influenza like symptoms
Atrophy	Wasting away or diminishing in size	Grocer's Itch	Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour
B		H
Bad Blood	Syphilis	Hectical Complaint	Recurrent fever
Biliousness	Jaundice associated with liver disease	Hemiplegy	Paralysis on one side of the body
Bladder In Throat	Diphtheria	Hydrocephalus	Enlarged head; water on the brain
Bloody Sweat	Sweating sickness	Hydropericardium	Heart dropsy
Brain Fever	Meningitis	Hydrothorax	Dropsy in the chest
Bright's Disease	Chronic inflammatory disease of the kidney's	Hypertrophic	Enlargement of an organ; such as the heart
C		I
Cachexy	Malnutrition	Impetigo	Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules
Catalepsy	Seizures / trances	Inanition	Physical condition resulting from a lack of food
Child Bed Fever	Infection following the birth of a child	Infantile Paralysis	Polio
Confinement	Died during or shortly after childbirth	Intestinal Colic	Condition caused by a blockage of the intestines
Consumption	Tuberculosis
Cramp Colic	Appendicitis
D		J
Debility	Lack of movement or staying in bed	Jail Fever	Typhus
Delirium Tremens	Hallucinations due to alcoholism	Jaundice (yellow)	Condition caused by a blockage of the intestines
Diphtheria	Contagious disease of the throat
Dropsy	Edema (swelling) often caused by heart or kidney disease
Dropsy of the Brain	Encephalitis
Dysentery	Inflammation of the colon with frequent passage of mucous & blood
E		K
Edema	Nephrosis; swelling of tissues	King's Evil	Tuberculosis of the neck and lymph glands
Edema of Lungs	Congestive heart failure; a form of Dropsy	Kruchhusten	Whooping cough
Encephalitis	Swelling of the brain; aka - sleeping sickness
Enteric Fever	Typhoid Fever
Entercolitis	Inflammation of the intestines
Extravasted Blood	The rupture of a blood vessel
F		L
Falling Sickness	Epilepsy	Lagrippe	Influenza
Fatty Liver	Cirrhosis of the liver	Long Sickness	Tuberculosis
Fits	Sudden attack or seizure of muscle ability	Lumbago	Back pain
Flux	An excessive flow or discharge of fluid such as hemorrhage or diarrhea	Lung Fever	Pneumonia
Flux of Humour	Circulation	Lung Sickness	Tuberculosis
French Pox	Syphilis	Lying In	Time of delivery of an infant

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