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From: Eugene Hubbard <>
Subject: [MABARNST] Old/Outdated Medical Terms
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:14:43 -0500


Outdated medical terminology, which has changed over time, which you
might
find in genealogical records [from a Genealogy.Com webpage.]


Outdated Term Current Term
apoplexy stroke

bad blood syphilis

blood poisoning septicemia (overwhelming
bacterial infection)

Bright's disease glomerulonephritis (serious
kidney disease)

consumption tuberculosis, pulmonary

cretinism hypothyroidism, congenital

dropsy congestive heart failure

fatty liver cirrhosis

glandular fever mononucleosis

grippe influenza (flu) killed lots of
people in 1918

jail fever typhus

lock jaw tetanus

lung fever pneumonia

lung sickness tuberculosis

plague/black death Bubonic plague

podagra gout

Pott's disease tuberculosis of the spinal
vertebrae

quinsy streptococcal tonsillitis

scrofula tuberculosis of the neck
lymph nodes

toxemia of pregnancy eclampsia (high blood pressure
& seizures)

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