Older names for diseases listed in obits

   Years ago common ailments and diseases had different names which often are listed on death certificates or in newspaper articles. Here is a listing of the old name and the current one. I found this in an old article (undated) that I had clipped from the local paper. Since I am not a medical person I am not vouching  for how accurate it is. The list ended with "g" and I had no follow-up article. But I thought it might help you in research.

Ablepsy / blindness

Ague/ malarial fever

American plague/ yellow fever

Aphonia/ laryngitis

Aphtha/ the infant disease “Thrush”

Bilious fever/ typhoid or malaria, elevated temperature

Biliousness/ jaundice associated w/ liver disease

Black plague or black death/ bubonic plague

Bacterial infection/ septicemia

Bloody flux/ bloody stools

Brain fever/ meningitis

Cachexy/malnutrition

Cacogastric/ upset stomach

Camp fever/ typhus aka camp diarrhea

Cerebritis/ inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning

Childbed fever/ infection following birth of child

Cramp colic/ appendicitis

Croup/ laryngitis, diphtheria or strep throat

Debility/ lack of movement or staying in bed

Decrepitude/ feebleness due to old age

Dropsy/ edema (swelling) often caused by kidney or heart disease

Dropsy of the brain/ encephalitis

Dysentery/ inflammation of colon w/ passage of mucous & blood

Edema/ nephrosis, swelling of tissues

Edema of lungs/congestive heart failure

Encephalitis/ swelling of the brain aka sleeping sickness

Enteric fever/ typhoid fever

Epitaxis/ nose bleed

Falling sickness/ epilepsy

French pox/ syphilis

Glandular fever/ mononucleosis

Grippe or grip/ influenza-like symptoms