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From: Norma Harris <>
Subject: [BRE] German illness translations
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 09:37:15 -0700
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There was no copyright claimed on this and I thought it may help
someone.
http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/articles/link/illness.txt
German Illness Translations

The following is a compiled listing of illnesses and causes of
death
gleaned from three primary sources. They are posted here in the
hopes
that they may aid family historians and genealogists in
interpreting the
conditions in which their ancestors lived and died. My role has
merely
been the compiler. The credit for the translation work should go
to Ann
Rempel, Dora Epp, V. Lyle von Riesen, and Adalbert Goertz. Those
who
feel they have more to add to the list or important corrections may
do
so by notifying myself (Judith Rempel, ).

Reviewers who have suggested improvements: Elli Wise, Alan Peters,
Adalbert Goertz, Glenn Penner and an anonymous physician from
Calgary,
Alberta. Thank you. Edited by Marty McMahon (13 Apr 1997)

This work may be freely copied for non-profit purposes.
No copyright is claimed. -jr


Abzehrung emaciation; consumption

Altengeschwuern varicose veins

Altersschwaeche old age
& Altershalber

Ausschlag skin disease

Auszehrung weakness - often tuberculosis

Blattern pustules, perhaps smallpox or chicken
pox

Blinddarmentzuendung appendicitis

Blutsturz violent hemorrhage

Blutvergiftung blood poisoning

Brauene diphtheria

Brechdurchfall bloody diarrhea - perhaps bacillary
dysentery
(i.e. Shigellosis)

Bruch Schaden hernia

Brustkrankheit ?

Convulsionen convulsions

Darmgicht, Darmkolik, & intestinal afflictions - one or more
could be
Darmsucht gastroenteritis caused by bacteria

Lungesucht (der taru) tuberculosis

Diphtherie, diphteritis diphtheria

Druesenkrankheit disease of the lymph glands - perhaps
scrofula (an
acute form of tuberculosis)

Durchfall diarrhea

Durchfall und der Ruhr dysentery

Engbruestigkeit tightness of chest, asthma

Englischen Krankheit rickets

Entkraeftung weakness as found in old age

Enzuendungs Fieber inflammation/fever

Epilepsie epilepsy

Ertrunken drowned

Faul Fieber "rotten" fever

Flecken spots - perhaps measles or typhus

Folgen chirurgieschen operation result of a surgical operation

Fraisen ?

Freasal und Fleck Fieber fever and spotted fever

Friesel Pustules - could be chicken pox

Fruehgeburt premature birth

Gallkrankheit ?

Gallen Fieber infected gall bladder - perhaps bilious
fever or hepatitis

Gedaermbrand, Gedaermfrasz intestinal gangrene (ulcerative colitis)

Gelbsuch jaundice

Geschwulst tumor

Gicht gout

Gichter convulsive fits

Goldene Ader hemorrhoids

Halsbrauene quinsy, suppurative tonsillitis -
perhaps strep throat

Halsenzuendung tonsillitis

Harnruhr diabetes insipidus

Herz-Brustwassersucht mit pleurisy, emphysema
hinzutrender Lungenlaehmung

Herzerweiterung, Leber- enlarged heart and hardening of the
liver and stomach
Magenverhaertung

Herzkrankheit heart disease

Hitziges Fieber typhoid fever

Husten cough

Kaltenbrande frostbite

Kaltenerkaeltung influenza

Keuchhusten whooping cough

Kindbette (in dem) post partum illness

Knochenbruechen broken bones

Knochenfaeule osteomyelitis

Kolik colic

Kraempfen cramps

Krankheiten und Urin... illness of urine-producing organs

Krebs cancer

Lebensschwaeche frailty of life

Leibverstopfung blockage of the belly (constipation)

Luftroehrenschwindzucht bronchial (galloping) consumption -
probably
bronchial pneumonia

Lungenentzuendung pneumonia

Lungenlaemung disability of the lungs

Lungentuberkulose pulmonary tuberculosis

Magenkrebs stomach cancer

Magenoperation stomach operation

Magenverhaertung perhaps hardening of the stomach

Masern measles

Masern und Roetheln measles and German measles

Melancholie und Wahnsin depression and madness

Nerven Fieber typhus

Nichtbestimte Krankheit unknown illness

Niederkunft (bei der) maternity confinement

Nierenkrebs kidney cancer

Organ. Herzfehler organic heart failure

Petechien typhoid

Pocken smallpox

Potatschen spotted fever, spotted typhoid

Scharlach, Scharlach Fieber, scarlet fever
& Schlarachriesel

Schlag, Schlaganfall stroke

Schlagflusz apoplectic fit, stroke

Schleichendem Fieber consumption, tuberculosis

Schwemmen external growth (spongy growth)

Schwindsucht acute tuberculosis

Selbstmoerder suicide

Soropkeln (?) Verstopfung blockage of intestines, tuberculosis of
glands
der Gekroesdruesen

Steckflusz asthma, emphysema

Steinbeschwerde kidney stones

Stickhusten whooping cough

Tod durch Unschlingung der stillbirth due to strangulation by
umbilical cord
Nabelschnur um den Hals-
Erstichung

Ungluecksfaellen mancher Art accidents of any kind

Unterleibsentzuendung peritonitis due to intestinal bacteria
released into the
abdominal cavity

Unzeitig ad. Todtgeborene; in stillborn, or premature childbirth
den Wochen

Venerischen Krankheit venereal disease, syphilis

Verunglueckt accidental death

Wasserkopfe hydrocephalous

Wassersucht dropsy, congestive heart failure, edema

Weszerschen ?

Windgeschwulst chicken pox

Wuermern worms

Zaehnen teeth

Sources:

(1) The Kirchenbuch prepared by Dirck Tiessen (1782) in Petershagen,
Prussia. This is how the list started, from a single page entitled
"Hauptkrankeiten" (main illnesses). It was translated by Ann Rempel
and Dora Epp in 1996. They humbly requested that I qualify their work
as follows. "Not all terms are translated or perhaps correctly
translated. But, but the result is the best of our ability." For
both
Ann and Dora, German is their first language, but have lived in Canada
and used English for 40+ years.

(2) A monograph by Richard Ringenberg (1942), Familienbuch der
mennoniten Gemeinde Eichstock. Schriften des Bayerischen
Landesvereins
fuer Familienkunde e. V., Heft 18. Verlag Michael Laszleben,
Kallmuenz
uebert Regensburg. The causes of death found in this monograph were
extensively reviewed by V. Lyle von Riesen who holds a PhD and has
taught in medical schools in the United States for 35 years. His
published article is entitled "Causes of Deaths in the Eichstock
[Baveria] Mennonite congregation" and can be found in Mennonite Family
History, XV, 4, p. 151-155.

(3) Another article published in Mennonite Family History, prepared by
Adalbert Goertz. It appeared in the April 1991 issue as "Diseases in
Prussian Church Records".

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