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A Dictionary of Civil WaR Era Diseases John C. Rigdon

This book is a great tool for researchers. It explains in modern terms many of the old medical terms and diseases of the Civil War era and shows the diseases that were rampant among Civil War troops and how they had an impact on the outcome of the war.

This dictionary also includes an extensive section on Marfan's Disease - a painful extension of the arms, hands and legs which many believe afflicted Abraham Lincoln and was the primary cause of his addiction to drugs.

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AGUE: Chills associated with fever; archaic term for malarial fever.

ANASARCA: A generalized infiltration of edema fluid into subcutaneous connective tissue.

ANTHRAX: A disease caused by infection of cutaneous anthrax characterized by hemorrhage in various organs and body cavities, with symptoms of severe prostration.

APOPLEXY: Obsolete term for cerebral stroke, most often due to hemorrhage.

ASTHENIA: Weakness or debility.

BILIOUS REMITTENT FEVER: Archaic term for relapsing fever characterized by bilious vomiting and diarrhea.

BUBOE/ BUBO: Inflammatory swelling of one or more lymph nodes, usually in the groin, usually suppurating.

CAMP FEVER: This term was used for all of the continuing fevers experienced by the army: Typhoid Fever, Malarial Remittent Fever, and Typho-malarial Fever. The last named is a combination of elements from the first two diseases. This combination, Typho-malarial Fever, was the characteristic "camp fever" during the Civil War. Symptoms included: a pronounced chill followed by an intermittent fever, abdominal tenderness and nausea, general debility, diarrhea, retention of urine, and furring of the tongue.

CARDITIS: Inflammation of the heart.

CATARRH: Inflammation of the mucous membranes with increased flow of mucous.

CEPHALALGIA: Headache.

CICATRIZED/ CICATRIX: Healed, formation of scar.

COMMINUTED: Broken into several pieces.

CONSUMPTION: Tuberculosis (also called Phthisis).

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