Outdated medical terminology and their modern equivalent
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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Outdated Term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