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Outdated medical terminology and their modern equivalent
Apoplexy

Bad Blood

Blood Poisoning

Bright's Disease

Consumption

Cretinism

Dropsy

Fatty Liver

Glandular Fever

Grippe

Jail Fever

Lock Jaw

Lung Fever

Lung Sickness

Plague/ Black Death

Podagra

Pott's Disease

Quinsy

Scrofula

Toxemia of Pregnancy
Stroke

Syphilis

Septicemia (overwhelming bacterial infection)

Glomerulonephritis (serious kidney disease)

Tuberculosis, pulmonary

Hypothyroidism, congenital

Congestive heart failure

Cirrhosis

Mononucleosis

Influenza (flu)

Typhus

Tetanus

Pneumonia

Tuberculosis

Bubonic Plague

Gout

Tuberculosis of the spinal vertebrae

Streptococcal tonsillitis

Tuberculosis of the neck lymph nodes

Eclampsia (high blood pressure & siezures)
Outdated Term
Modern Term