inflammation of a mucous membranes of the head and throat, with a flow of mucous. Bronchial catarrh was bronchitis; suffocative catarrh was croup; urethral catarrh was gleet; vaginal catarrh was leu [..]

piles.

may have been used to indicate a fever or enteritis during which worms were passed in the faeces. It is given as a cause of death of children in the early 19th century. For modern dictionaries of medi [..]

Brucellosis, a disease caught from cattle via milk resulting in a fever.

a swelling in soft tissue filled with pus caused by an infection, such as a boil.

means a condition of recent origin whereas chronic means of long standing.

  anaemic condition caused by kidney disease.  A disease characterised by severe weakness, low blood pressure, and a bronzed coloration of the skin, due to decreased secretion of cortisol from the adr [..]

  malarial infection characterised by paroxysms (stages of chills, fever, and sweating at regularly recurring times) and followed by an interval or intermission of varying duration. Popularly, the dis [..]

lack of sufficient red blood cells, sometimes caused by iron deficiency and worsened by the medical practice of bleeding patients for virtually every condition. Also known as green fever, green sickne [..]

a ballooning of an artery caused by a weakened artery wall.