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  1. Pintle
  2. Yellowjacket
  3. Worm Fit
  4. Womb Fever
  5. Winter Fever
  6. White Swelling
  7. Water on the brain
  8. Viper's Dance
  9. Venesection
  10. Variola
  11. Typhus
  12. Tussis Convulsiva
  13. Trench Mouth
  14. Toxemia of Pregnancy
  15. Tick fever
  16. Thrush
  17. Thrombosis
  18. Tetanus
  19. Swamp Sickness
  20. Sunstroke
  21. Summer Complaint
  22. Sudor Anglicus
  23. Stranger's Fever
  24. Stomatitis
  25. St. Vitus Dance
  26. St. Anthony's Fire
  27. Spotted fever
  28. Spasms
  29. Softening of the brain
  30. Small Pox
  31. Sloes
  32. Siriasis
  33. Ship Fever
  34. Shingles
  35. Shaking
  36. Shakes
  37. Septicemia
  38. Scurvy
  39. Scrumpox
  40. Scrofula
  41. Screws
  42. Scrivener's palsy
  43. Scotomy
  44. Scirrhus
  45. Sciatica
  46. Scarlet Rash
  47. Scarlet Fever
  48. Scarlatina
  49. Sanguineous Crust
  50. Rotanny fever
  51. Poliomyelitis
  52. Rubeola
  53. Rose Cold
  54. Rickets Disease
  55. Rheumatism
  56. Remitting fever
  57. Putrid fever
  58. Puking fever
  59. Puerperal fever
  60. Puerperal Exhaustion
  61. Pott's Disease
  62. Potter's Asthma
  63. Podagra
  64. Pleurisy
  65. Plague
  66. Phthisis Chronic
  67. Phthiriasis
  68. Petechial fever
  69. Peritonitis/Peritonotis
  70. Peripneumonia
  71. Pericarditis
  72. Pemphigus
  73. Paroxysm
  74. Palsy
  75. Quinsy
  76. Nostalgia
  77. Neuralgia
  78. Nervous Prostration
  79. Nepritis
  80. Nephrosis
  81. Necrosis
  82. Myocarditis
  83. Myelitis
  84. Mortification
  85. Morphew
  86. Mormal
  87. Milk sickness
  88. Milk Leg
  89. Milk fever
  90. Miasma
  91. Metritis
  92. Meningitis
  93. Marasmus
  94. Mania
  95. Malignant sore throat
  96. Lying in
  97. Lung fever
  98. Lumbago
  99. Lues Venera
  100. Lues Disease
  101. Long sickness/Lung sickness
  102. Lockjaw
  103. Lagrippe
  104. Jaundice
  105. Jail fever
  106. Intestinal colic
  107. Inanition
  108. Impetigo
  109. Hypertrophic
  110. Hydrothroax/Hydrothorax
  111. Hydrophobia
  112. Hydropericardium
  113. Hydrocephalus
  114. Hip Gout
  115. Hemiplegy
  116. Hematuria
  117. Hematemesis
  118. Hectical complaint
  119. Heat Stroke
  120. Heart sickness
  121. Grocer's Itch
  122. Green fever/Green sickness
  123. Great Pox
  124. Glandular Fever
  125. Flux
  126. Fits
  127. Fatty Liver
  128. Falling sickness
  129. Extravasted blood
  130. Erysipelas
  131. Epitaxis
  132. Enteritis
  133. Enterocolitis
  134. Enteric Fever
  135. Encephalitis
  136. Elephantiasis
  137. Eel thing
  138. Edema of lungs
  139. Edema Nephrosis
  140. Ecstasy
  141. Eclampsy
  142. Cold plague
  143. Chorea
  144. Cholelithiasis
  145. Cholecystitus
  146. Black pox
  147. Black fever
  148. Black plague/Black death
  149. Biliousness
  150. Bilious fever
  151. Bad blood
  152. Asphyesia/Asphicsia
  153. Aphonia
  154. American plague
  155. Ablepsy
  156. Dysury
  157. Dyspepsia
  158. Dysorexy
  159. Dysentery
  160. Dyscrasy
  161. Dry Bellyache
  162. Dropsy of the Brain
  163. Dropsy
  164. Dock Fever
  165. Distemper
  166. Diptheria
  167. Diary Fever
  168. Deplumation
  169. Dentition
  170. Dengue fever
  171. Delirium tremens
  172. Decreptitude
  173. Debility
  174. Day Fever
  175. Cystitis
  176. Cynanche
  177. Cyanosis
  178. Croup Laryngitis
  179. Crop Sickness
  180. Cramp colic
  181. Costiveness
  182. Coryza
  183. Congestive fever
  184. Congestive chills
  185. Congestion
  186. Colic
  187. Cholera mrbus
  188. Cholera
  189. Chlorosis
  190. Chin cough
  191. Child Bed Fever
  192. Chilblain
  193. Cerebritis
  194. Catarrhal
  195. Catalepsy
  196. Canker
  197. Canine Madness
  198. Caduceus
  199. Cacogastric
  200. Cachexy
  201. Bule Boil
  202. Bright's disease
  203. Breakbone
  204. Brain fever
  205. Bone shave
  206. Blood poisoning
  207. Bladder in throat
  208. Bloody sweat
  209. Bloody flux
  210. Blackwater Fever
  211. Black Vomit
  212. Black Pox
  213. Black Fever
  214. Black Plague/Black Death
  215. Atrophy
  216. Apoplexy
  217. Aphtha
  218. Anasarca
  219. Ague
  220. D.O.W.
  221. Green sickness
  222. Gripe
  223. Quinine and whiskey
  224. Quinine (Old Quinine)
  225. Noxious effluvia