Outdated Medical Terms

apoplexy =  stroke

bad blood = syphilis

blood poisoning = septicemia 

Bright's disease = glomerulonephritis

consumption = tuberculosis

cretinism hypothyroidism = congenital

dropsy = congestive heart failure

fatty liver = cirrhosis

glandular fever = mononucleosis

grippe = influenza
 
jail fever = typhus

lock jaw = tetanus

lung fever = pneumonia

lung sickness = tuberculosis

plague/black death = Bubonic plague

podagra = gout

Pott's disease = tuberculosis of the spinal vertebrae

quinsy = streptococcal tonsillitis

scrofula = tuberculosis of the neck lymph nodes
toxemia of pregnancy = eclampsia