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| Outdated Term | Current Term | Description |
|---|---|---|
| apoplexy | stroke | aneurism blocking blood flow to the brain |
| bad blood | syphilis | serious venereal disease that in its final stage causes terminal mental deterioration |
| blood poisoning | septicemia | overwhelming bacterial infection |
| Bright's disease | glomerulonephritis | serious kidney disease |
| consumption | tuberculosis, pulmonary | disease that destroys the lungs it is caused by an airborne bacillus |
| cretinism | hypothyroidism, congenital | severe mental and physical retardation caused by thyroid deficiency, an inherited condition |
| dropsy | congestive heart failure, edema | condition in which a watery fluid collects in certain cavities of the body, usually accompanied by swelling |
| fatty liver | cirrhosis | degeneration of liver cells and hardening due to great increase of fibrous tissues in the liver |
| glandular fever | mononucleosis | abnormal increase in the number of mononuclear leucocytes in the blood, resembles a chronic 'flu |
| grippe | influenza (flu) | pandemically recurring contagious infection with cold-like symptoms, killed lots of people in 1918 |
| jail fever | typhus | high fever, extreme weakness, dark-red spots on the skin and stupor or delirium caused by a rickettsia carried by fleas, lice, mites, or ticks |
| The King's Evil | tuberculosis of the neck lymph nodes |
see: scrofula |
| lock jaw | tetanus | violent spasms,stiffness of muscles, and even death caused by bacilli entering the body through wounds (commonly punctures). Vaccination can prevent it |
| lung fever | pneumonia | accumulation of fluids in the lungs |
| lung sickness | tuberculosis | see: consumption |
| plague/black death | Bubonic plague | high fever, chills, and swelling of the lymph glands usually carried to humans by fleas from rats and squirrels often it is accompanied by blackish bruising of the skin |
| podagra | gout | deposit of uric acid salts in and around the joints |
| Pott's disease | tuberculosis of the spinal vertebrae |
often results in a marked curvature of the spine caused by the destruction of affected vertebrae |
| quinsy | streptococcal tonsillitis | very sore throat with abcess and/or pus in the tonsils |
| scrofula (aka: King's Evil) | tuberculosis of the neck lymph nodes |
enlargement of the lymphatic glands and inflammation of the joints caused by a bacillus |
| toxemia of pregnancy | eclampsia | high blood pressure & seizures with edema |
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