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Family Past's Medical Dictionary
The Medical dictionary of our ancestors was a lot different than today.
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Ablepsy |
Blindness |
Ague |
Malarial Fever |
American plague |
Yellow fever |
Anasarca |
Generalized massive edema |
Aphonia |
Loss of the voice resulting from disease, injury to the vocal cords, or various psychological causes, such as hysteria |
Aphtha
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A minute painful ulcer on a mucous membrane of the mouth, often covered by a gray or white exudate
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Apoplexy
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Sudden impairment of neurological function, especially that resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage; a stroke
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Asphyxia/Asphicsia
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A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death. Asphyxia can be induced by choking, drowning, electric shock, injury, or the inhalation of toxic gases
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'Bad Blood' is the term for how our ancestors recognised Syphilis. |
Syphilis |
Bilious fever |
Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis |
Biliousness |
Relating to, characterised by, or experiencing gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gallbladder |
Black Plague |
Bubonic plague |
Black fever |
Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate |
Black vomit |
Vomiting black blood due to stomach ulcers |
Blackwater fever |
A serious, often fatal complication of chronic malaria, characterised by the passage of bloody, dark red or black urine |
Bladder in throat |
Diphtheria |
Blood Poisoning |
Bacterial infection; septicaemia |
Brain Fever |
Was the term used for Meningitis |
Bronze John |
Was the term for Yellow Fever |
Bule
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Tumors or Swellings |
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"There
are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle" ~Albert Einstein |
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It
is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers
and sons. ~Johann Schiller |
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In
some families, please is described as the magic word. In our
house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret
Laurence |
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We
all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors
dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling
chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott |
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Nobody, who has not been in the interior
of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of
that family may be. ~Jane Austen |
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"The bond that links your true family
is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." ~Richard Bach |
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