Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever.

Old fashioned disease names. BLACK PLAGUE OR DEATH. Bilious fever - Typhoid malaria hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis. Black plague or death.

Ague an infectious fever grippe flu and dropsy edema are just a few. Black pox - Black Small pox. A localized collection of pus buried in tissues organs or confined spaces of the body often accompanied by swelling and inflammation and frequently caused by bacteria.

Bad Blood - Syphilis. Proven effective against the Cuban scurvy shimmies Johnsons Curse Mexican influenza corruption wasting whooping cough Browns intestinal fountain yellow belly Chester A. Dark urine associated with high temperature deadly form of malaria.

Arthurs disease Portuguese fever gimpism and impure self-gratification Sounds like an. With its distinctive aroma of camphor menthol and eucalyptus and familiar blue bottle Vicks VapoRub 239 for 50g evokes for many of us nostalgic memories of. Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease.

Old Names of Diseases. This is not intended to be a list of rare diseases nor is it a list of mental disorders. Many diseases have had multiple names throughout their history.

Aphtha - The infant disease thrush. Old Archaic Medical terms and Clinical names for diseases useful for historians and genealogists. Where multiple names are in common use for the same disease all of those names should link to the main article.