Old Time Disease Terms

• Ablepsia - blindness
• Aphonia - laryngitis
• Apoplexy - stroke
• Ague - recurring fever & chills due to a malarial infection
• Biliousness - jaundice associated with liver disease
• Black Pox - small pox
• Bloody Flux - dysentery
• Brain Fever - sun/heat stroke
• Bright's Disease - kidney diseases/disorders
• Bronze John - yellow fever
• Camp Fever - typhus
• Canine Madness - hydrophobia
• Carditis - inflammation of the heart wall
• Catarrh - inflammation of mucous membrane and/or Cerebral Hemorrhage (Apoplexy)
• Cerebritis - inflammation of the brain
• Childbed Fever - infection following childbirth
• Chlorosis - lack of iron / anemia
• Chorea  - nervous disorder. Often manifests twitching spasms. Also known as St. Vitus' Dance.
• Commotion - Concussion
• Consumption - tuberculosis
• Cramp Colic - appendicitis
• Croup - spasmodic laryngitis of infants and young children. Difficulty breathing and hoarse metallic cough
• Dropsy - edema (swelling), caused by kidney or heart disease. Also called congestive heart failure.
• Dysentery - diarrhea caused by spoiled milk, most often in babies or young children. 
• Dyspepsia - acid indigestion
• Enteric Fever - typhoid fever
• Enteritis - inflammation of the intestines
• Falling Sickness - epilepsy
• Fits - convulsions
• French Pox / French Disease - venereal disease/Syphilis
• Galloping Consumption - pulmonary tuberculosis
• Gout - an inflammation of the joints. Poor circulation caused by a buildup of uric acid in the body,
• Green Sickness - anemia
• Grippe - influenza (flu)
• Jail Fever - typhus
• Lumbago - Pain in lower back, hip, or thigh: Sciatica
• Lung Fever - pneumonia
• Lung Sickness - tuberculosis
• Mania - insanity
• Milk Leg - a painful swelling of the legs. Usually caused by infection after labor.
• Mormal - gangrene
• Mortification - infection
• Neurasthenia - neurotic condition
• Phthisis - pulmonary consumption
• Puerperal Fever - infection following childbirth
• Putrid Fever - diphtheria
• Quinsy/Quincy - tonsillitis
• Scrofula - tubercular infection of the throat / swelling of the neck glands
• Septicemia - blood poisoning
• Ship's Fever - typhus
• Yellow Jacket - yellow fever

Archaic Medical Terms

http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm

Kentucky Disease Chart

http://www.kentuckianagenealogy.org/guide/help/disease.html