Do you know these old-fashioned medical terms? The term on the left is an old fashioned name for a medical condition, and on the right is the the modern name of the disease.
Consumption: Tuberculosis
Ague: Malaria
Apoplexy: Paralysis due to stroke
Bad Blood: Syphilis
Black Plague: Bubonic Plague
Blood poisoning: Bacterial infection with lymphangitic streak (red streak from infection)
Boil: Abscess
Catalepsy: Seizures
Dropsy: Edema
Dysentery: Diarrhea
Grippe: Influenza
Infantile Paralysis: Polio
Lumbago: Back pain
Lying in, Confinement: Childbirth
Milk Leg: Leg swelling from thrombophlebitis after childbirth
Palsy: Loss of muscle control
Podagra; Gout
Quincy: Strep tonsillitis
