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From: "Chriss" <>
Subject: Re: [AR-OLD-NEWS] What is Ague
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:46:50 -0700
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I hope this helps, it sure helped me.

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

Good Luck,
Chriss
----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty J Bibb" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AR-OLD-NEWS] What is Ague


> Does anyone have the address for the website mentioned, with the old name
for a disease compared with the modern names.
> Thanks
> Bj
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 1:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [AR-OLD-NEWS] What is Ague
>
>
> Ague is a malarial fever with shaking, shivering, chills, Accompanied by
> cold, hot then sweating fits.
> Another old time disease is gout; a very painful inflammation of the
joints (
> mainly feet, hands and especially the big toe). There was even a
specially
> crafted "gout" hassock for resting a sore foot upon. It is caused by
excess
> uric acid in the blood.
> Catarrh (another old favorite) is inflammation of the mucous membranes,
with
> excessive nasal secretions.
> Flux is dysentery and also was called "bloody flux". A real killer.
> I've seen these mentioned seceral times in morbitity censuses. There is
even
> a website with the old name for a disease compared with the modern name.
>
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