Common Diseases

Disease Name	Symptoms, description
Apoplexy	Paralysis due to stroke
Brain Fever	Meningitis
Bright's Disease	Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
Child bed fever	Infection following birth of a child
Cholera	Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing
Cholera morbus	Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis
Congestive chills/ fever	Malaria
Consumption	Tuberculosis
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 with frequent passage of mucous and blood
Encephalitis	Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness
Falling sickness	Epilepsy
Flux	An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea
Grippe/grip	Influenza like symptoms
Jaundice	Condition caused by blockage of intestines
Lagrippe	Influenza
Lockjaw	Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days
Lung fever	Pneumonia
Lung sickness	Tuberculosis
Meningitis	Inflation of brain or spinal cord
Nephrosis	Kidney degeneration
Nepritis	Inflammation of kidneys
Quinsy	Abscess behind tonsils
Small pox	Contagious disease with fever and blisters
Summer complaint	Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk
Tuberculosis	Bacterial infection that primarily attacks the lungs, but which may also affect the kidneys, bones, lymph nodes, and brain. Symptoms of TB include coughing, chest pain, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, weight loss, fever, chills, and fatigue.
Tetanus	Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness
Thrush	Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat
Trench mouth	apathos ulcers or a virus disease
Typhus	Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness
Winter fever	Pneumonia

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