Monday, July 16, 2007

Medical Terms JKL

Jail fever IS Typhus



Just how many names can they give this? Does it change if it is from unsanitary conditions, or flea bites or tick bites? Where our ancestors plagued with it because they all lived in the same house? Just how unsanitary were the conditions? Does it make your skin crawl? ME TOO.



*Jaundice IS Condition caused by blockage of intestines



Are they saying that jaundiced babies have blocked intestines? Or are they using the term that babies liver's aren't fully matured and the left overs go into the intestines? How come half of babies born in America are jaundiced? Why is THAT normal? Did you children have it? Mine did not.



King's evil IS Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands



Believe it or not, TB can be anywhere, not just the lungs.



Kruchhusten IS Whooping cough



It is the German word for it.



*Lagrippe IS Influenza

How many times did you stay home from school or work with Lagrippe? How do you pronounce that? La Grip pee? la with two dots over the a, and the accent is on grip.



Lockjaw IS Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days


I remember stepping on a rusty nail at my grand mother's. We were up during the night. I sat on a chair in the kitchen with my foot in a bath of hot water and ebson salts. It was the same wash dish as she washed my face in. It was white enamel with a red border. Mother was in hospital and when she found out about it, she told me I could have died from it. Fast forward to the next nail incident on the farm. Another rusty nail but this time, a trip to town for a shot. Come to think of it, we have one of those dish pans at the lake. Lock jaw anyone? Have pan will travel.


Long sickness IS Tuberculosis

Well, for some it isn't short. Carl Bloom, the step grand father of the Anderson children had it for seventeen years before he was considered cured. Reverend Olaf Anderson, as we remember was ill with it for ten years.


Lues disease IS Syphilis

I asked my sweet Thomas about this and he said that Lues Disease didn't sound as bad as Syphilis. Have any of you read about the study they did in Alabama and all the people that were infected because they thought they were being treated for 'bad blood' but they weren't being treated at all which resulted in 40 years of spreading the disease?



Lues venera IS Venereal disease



*Lumbago IS Back pain

Twenty five plus years ago, someone had back pain. He was taken to the ER. The man had ruptured discs. But the doctor told him to lean over and touch his toes. He told the patient he had lumbago. NOT.



Lung fever IS Pneumonia



Lung sickness IS Tuberculosis



Lying in IS Time of delivery of infant

The OBGYN that I hired for the first part of my pregnancy with Rachel said that most women can have their babies in the wine fields of France and after delivery go back to work. The fifteen percent who can not must be these lying in ones. In the forties, mother's were actually put to sleep and the child was born; then they had weeks and weeks of recovery. Although it is scary for me to think about babies being born in the morning and going home in the afternoon it does give us a better feel for the natural concept of childbirth. Doesn't it also give the baby a chance to live in a real environment? I wasn't a lying in person, did you have to be?

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