And it is so.....

I thought as a follow up after all those diagnosis's it might mean more to actually take a trip through, oh, 50 or so years of newspapers and just give us a better insight of what was happening when.

We are going to use the Marshall and Pennington county area as a source.

1894 The city has typhoid

1899 Diphtheria deaths reported

1904 In Mitchell, South Dakota the least sick TB patients are being put in tents for the summer do to over crowding

1904 Spotted Fever reported

1909 Get rid of those germ carrying house flies by closing all the windows and boiling one quarter teaspoon of carbolic acid in a quart of water for five minutes. Raise your windows, what flies aren't dead, will leave. Do this weekly.

1909 I did want to give you the date, July 1909, when the law was passed requiring a death certificate before a body could be buried. That may have accounted for the large number of deaths than previously. Deaths and births have not always previously been reported.

1916 First mention of a tri county sanatorium

1916 Measles and Marbles are the spring combination

1916 Goodridge schools closes because of Scarlet Fever. One dead and three dangerously ill

1916 Sanatorium building to begin soon

1916 Father and son die of pneumonia

1917 Twenty one year old woman dies of TB in train depot waiting for her train home

1917 Previously mentioned, Mrs. Nels Rye ill with typhoid

1917 Previously mentioned, Rev Olaf Anderson dies of week lungs and a throat affection he had for ten years

1918 Mother of eight drops dead of nephritis

1918 Schools closed because of Influenza

Churches and theaters forbidden to open

1918 In October schools remain closed with deaths reported

1918 School will resume the first of November

Doctors continue to say avoid crowds

1920 Milder kind of flu in city. Health department orders against dances as a protective measure.

1920 Recovery from sleeping sickness after the flu

1920 A temporary illness that lasts from a day to two or three, and in which the victim's feel very uncomfortable, unable to eat, or work and vomit frequently is doing a round in the community and especially among the men folk.

1921 Sleeping flu

1921 Tuberculous of the hip

1921 Typhoid fever in Rosewood in May

1921 Cancer of the stomach and a tubercular affliction

1921 Short of breath, man dies in local hotel while waiting for an appointment at a private sanatorium near city

1921 Carl Bloom is ill with an affliction of the chest

1922 Man dies from a leaky heart

1924 Death from TB

1924 Blood poisoning survives

1924 Appendix survives

1925 Heart trouble

1925 Peritonitis and survived

1925 Typhoid Fever

1926 John Bloom dies of TB at 26 years of age

1926 Said he 'ached queerly', doctor dies near railroad yard

1926 Disease of the skin, Emil Mellem survives

1926 Deceased of anemia and complications of lymphatic glands. "He had been failing for some time but the death was unexpected".

1926 Mrs. Alby dies two weeks after birth of baby. Also had the flu, pneumonia, and complications

1926 Thea Nelson dies two weeks after her daughter, Mrs. Alby. She became ill with the flu while staying with her daughter.

1927 Newell Anderson dies due to complications following removal of his appendix

1928 Kari Ranum dies of TB

1935 Cliff Rye has operation for appendicitis and survives

1940 Lloyd Anderson family quarantined three weeks with small pox

1941 Lloyd Anderson has appendix removed and survives

1946 No children allowed in theaters due to polio scare

All the way to the end of the Alphabet and MORE!

This is the last of the series of medical terms. There are hundreds more that what Ihave listed. I could do medical terms until the twelfth of never but the exericise is for all of us to think about our own ancestors and have some clue as to what happened to them. A few months ago, I was helping with the medical history of someone in the ER. Why is it that when you feel like your head it in a gunny sack full of manure the people swam about you asking the same questions over and over when they have a ten inch thick chart in front of them that tells all? Anyway, they asked what the mother deceased from. The person couldn't find the word in his word pool. I said, "She was old". At ninety, does one have to have a reason? Of course they do. Even the old death certificates, which, by the way, weren't a law until after 1900, had a reason.

I told my sweet Thomas I was going to make a list of my children's ancestors death certifciate reasons so when they were in the ER they could say, "He got run over by a street car at one week old." Let them find that in the chart.

I always wondered if the diagnosises in the nursing home residents charts were listed according to complaint by patient or the worse first, OR a pill for every ill. If one had cancer 30 years ago was it listed because there was a scar and it solved a mystery or did someone have a great memory and said, "Ja, I had cancer tirty years ago."

If you are in the medical field then terms, diagnosis, responses, pills, and so forth are all part of your normal day routine. You may say to someone who, let's say, is a college student with Internet saavy in lingo, "your grandmother has a UTI, that is what is making her confused". Would you not search your computer or text message lingo for it? We assume it is not something to LOL but what is it? Why does it make grandma crazy? And so we key in UTI on the subject line of the search engine and the first hit is UTI Urinary Tract Infection and read all about it. But you can bet your sweet bippie that nurse is not going to go to her medical book looking for LOL. But then we don't say LOL, we type it. But we do say, FYI and that is what this is all about.


Tetanus IS Infectious fever with high fever, headache and dizziness



Thrombosis IS Blood clot inside blood vessel



Thrush Tick fever IS Rocky mountain spotted fever



Toxemia of pregnancy IS Eclampsia



Trench mouth IS Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor nutrition and poor hygiene



Tuberculosis IS This is the modern name. See 'Long sickness', 'Lung sickness', and 'King's evil' above.



Tussis convulsiva IS Whooping cough



Typhus IS Infectious fever with high fever, headache, and dizziness



Variola IS Smallpox



Venesection IS Bleeding



Viper's dance IS St. Vitus Dance



Water on brain IS Enlarged head



White swelling IS Tuberculosis of the bone



Winter fever IS Pneumonia



Womb fever IS Infection of the uterus.



Worm fit IS Convulsions associated with teething, worms, high temperature or diarrhea



Yellowjacket IS Yellow fever.



And there you have it, the alphabet soup of sicknesses common at turn of the century!





I do want to site a few more:



BARREL FEVER is something one contracted from immoderate drinking



Remember what profession got BLACK LUNG? Yes, coal miners



According to colonial diseases, Bright's disease was an inflammation of the kidneys and in its acute form it is called nephritis. Does that mean one can have both? Or do we separate the stage by the name?



CATARRH is profuse running of eyes and nose from an inflammation.



Is CHILBLAIN painful? It is stated in is a swelling of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold.



GALLOPING CONSUMPTION IS Tuberculous of the lungs.



and just an update on Quinsy, it is a severe form of tonsillitis with the abscess NEAR the tonsils.



I am hopeful all of you found this list of interest. My question is how many near diagnosis have been named, let's say in the last 25 years? Any guesses? Any idea of where to look to find the answer? Or is it "Only your hair dresser knows for sure!"



Night, sleep tight and dag nabbit, don't dig in that scab!



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The P R S of being Sick

PRS
*Palsy IS Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles.
There was a lady who was so animated. She came into the durable medical place where I worked to get something for her husband. One side of her face was not moving. She had Bell's Palsy. She assured me it would pass. And it did.


Paludismo IS This is the name of Malaria in Puerto Rico
Like we are going to run right down there and get it.

Paralysis of the insane IS Syphilis.
Will we ever be finished with Syphilis?

*Paroxysm IS Convulsion

Pemphigus IS Skin disease with watery blisters

*Pericarditis IS Inflammation of heart

*Peripneumonia IS Inflammation of lungs

*Peritonotis IS Inflammation of abdominal area
Why does it sound so much like a gum disease?


Petechial Fever IS Fever with skin spotting

Puerperal exhaustion IS Death from child birth

*Phthiriasis IS Lice infestation
When I was a little girl, about 8 as I remember, we went to Grand Forks, ND to see the Shrine Circus. It was in the early fifties. I wanted a cowboy hat, I wanted a cowboy hat and so did my friend, Judy. But all we got where balloons. I was told I could NOT have a cowboy hat and if I would just stop harping I would get a balloon. Well, there were a lot of kids there with cowboy hats and they had white rags under theirs. I wasn't sure why they did but I was from a small town, what did I know? If you were born in the forties, you know parents did not give complete answers. It was not the era of explaining. Later, I learned the kids had head lice. But why were they wearing white rags? I realized MUCH later that I didn't get a hat because if one of the infested kids tried the hat on, I would get head lice too. THEN I remembered how Grandpa had lit his hair on fire to get rid of them.


Phthisis IS Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis

Plague IS An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate

*Pleurisy IS Any pain in the chest area with each breath
Believe me this hurts like a son of a gun. I found laying on the sun warmed driveway made it feel much better.

*Podagra IS Gout

Poliomyelitis IS Polio

Pott's disease IS Tuberculosis of spine

Puerperal exhaustion IS Death from childbirth

Puerperal fever IS Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant

Puking fever IS Milk sickness

Purpura IS HENOCH-SCHONLEIN PURPURA:Symptoms: Purple spots on the skin (purpura), usually over the buttocks, lower legs, and elbows; hives, joint pain; abdominal pain; nausea;vomiting; diarrhea; bloody stools; painful menstruation

Putrid fever IS Diphtheria.

*Quinsy IS Tonsillitis. I had a friend who had this. She was 14 and was in the peds ward. If Quinsy IS tonsillitis how come her mother said she had quinsy? Was that worse? I was glad I turned 15 before my appendix blew up, at least I didn't have to be with the crying babies who my friend held because the nurses were too busy. Labor shortage or child labor?

Remitting fever IS Malaria

Rheumatism IS Any disorder associated with pain in joints
Know the song?
Rheumatism, rheumatism,
when it rains, when it rains
Up and down the system, Up and down the system
Oh the pain, oh the pain.

Rickets IS Disease of skeletal system

Rose cold IS Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy

Rotanny fever IS Children's disease

*Rubeola IS German measles

*Sanguineous crust IS Scab Ever pick off your sanguineous crust when you were bored?

*Scarlatina IS Scarlet fever

Scarlet fever IS A disease with a red rash

Scarlet rash IS Roseola
Oh I Know this one. My daughter, Rachel was just starting to sit up. So she was about six months old. She got a fever. That is all she got and it wouldn't stay down. THEN she broke out in a rash just like the doctor said she would. If you look really hard at a picture of her taken at Weaver's Department Store, you can see it.

*Sciatica IS Rheumatism in the hips
This is my demon.

Scirrhus IS Cancerous tumors

Scotomy IS Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight

*Scrivener's palsy IS Writer's cramp
I am getting this from keyboarding, does that count?

*Screws IS Rheumatism
No doubt you are screwed if you have it.

Scrofula IS Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with abscesses and pistulas developing. Usually occurs in the young. Another tuberculosis site.

Scrumpox IS Skin disease, impetigo
I thought this was scum pox

Scurvy IS Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums, hemmoraging under skin.

Septicemia IS Blood poisoning
Some deaths in the family occurred do to this but someone lived because he put his arm in a burlap bag filled with fresh cow manure. Shirley tells the story wonderfully on the previous post. You must read it!

Shakes IS Shaking Chills, ague

*Shingles IS Viral disease with skin blisters
This is more common than one thinks. It is not only blistery but itches for a long time after the skin blisters are gone.

Ship fever IS Typhus

Siriasis IS Inflammation of the brain from exposure to the sun
Mother insisted I wear a hat to ride horse back, is this why?

Sloes IS Milk sickness

Small pox IS Contagious disease with fever and blisters

Softening of brain IS Result of stroke or hemorrhage in the brain, with an end result of the tissue softening in that area

Sore throat distemper IS Diphtheria or quinsy

Spanish influenza IS Epidemic influenza

Spasms IS Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles, like a convulsion

Spina bifida IS Deformity of spine

Spotted fever IS Either typhus or meningitis

Sprue IS Tropical disease with intestinal disorders and sore throat

St. Anthony's fire IS Also erysipelas, but named so because of affected skin areas are bright red in appearance

St. Vitas dance IS Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements performed involuntary

Stomatitis IS Inflammation of the mouth

Stranger's fever IS Yellow fever

Strangery IS A Rupture

Sudor anglicus IS Sweating sickness

Summer complaint IS Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk

Sunstroke IS Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause

So, it that why they gave people in the service salt tablets?

Swamp sickness IS Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis

Sweating sickness IS Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century

M & N but no O!

Malaria IS Malignant sore throat Diphtheria
* Most people are vaccinated against Diphtheria. It is called DPT. P stands for whooping cough. Help me out here, what does the T stand for? Oh ya, I remember: Tetanus just in case a rusty nail got into the crib. Bud had his in two parts. Rachel had her first one and cried and I cried and we called the doctor and he said give her baby aspirin and take two adult aspirin yourself.

Mania IS Insanity

They called in Beatlemania how come it wasn't called PerryComomania or elvis mania?

Marasmus IS Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition

Ever watch a dementia person eat? Well, they don't. That is why they are fed.

Membranous Croup IS Diphtheria

*Meningitis IS Inflation of brain or spinal cord
This is so scary to me

*Metritis IS Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge

We went to a couple's house for chili one cold winter night. She had metritis. Not even the aroma of the chili could cover the smell. She should not have told us about it when we first came in.

Miasma IS Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air

*Milk fever IS Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant fever or brucellosis

This was my argument for not drinking raw milk.

*Milk leg IS Post partum thrombophlebitis

"Thrombo" means "clot." Phlebitis is inflammation of a vein. Thrombophlebitis (throm-bo-fluh-BI-tis) occurs when a blood clot causes inflammation in one or more of your veins, typically in your legs. On rare occasions, thrombophlebitis (often shortened to "phlebitis") can affect veins in your arms or neck.

*Milk sickness IS Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds

My second reason for not drinking raw milk.

Mormal IS Gangrene

Morphew IS Scurvy blisters on the body

Is that because they didn't eat enough fruit? "Drink your orange juice or you will get scurvy; drink your milk or you will get rickets".

Mortification IS Gangrene of necrotic tissue

What is necrotic tissue? That means the tissue has died. It is like when Ryen was bitten by the recluse spider while sleeping. We are talking bad scene here folks. At home, in the desk drawer, I have a folder full of information about this terrible type of accident where he and others I knew were bitten. One lady was at her daughter's in Illinois sleeping with her husband on a rarely used sofa bed. Another was kneeling in her garden picking strawberries.

*Myelitis IS Inflammation of the spine

*Myocarditis IS Inflammation of heart muscles

Necrosis IS Mortification of bones or tissue

Nephrosis IS Kidney degeneration

Notice how close in spelling this is to the next on the list.

*Nepritis IS Inflammation of kidneys

This is the acute stage, meaning just started

*Nervous prostration IS Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities

Tried to claim this but was too bored to carry it out.

*Neuralgia IS Described as discomfort, such as "Headache" was neuralgia in head

Wasn't there an aspirin advertisment for this?

*Nostalgia IS Homesickness

Ever go to camp? :). Ever miss someone until your misser is broke?

Nuerasthenia is a neurotic condition characterized by worry, disturbed digestion, attributed to feelings of inferiority.

For those of you who may have a fresh cut, one may consider this colonial method of care.

TAKE A PIECE OF SALT BEEF AND ROAST IT IN HOT ASHES, THEN MAKE IT CLEAN AND PUT IT INTO THE WOUND AND THE BLEEDING WILL STOP. Of course it will stop, by the time it is roast and cleaned it better have stopped. You don't want to know what to do about a bloody nose!

Loving thoughts to all who enter in.

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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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G H 'N I

G, H, AND I-- WISHING YOU WELLNESS

Old names and new names for illnesses


Gathering is A collection of pus

*Glandular fever is Mononucleosis

It was called mono when my brother had it and Glandular fever when I had it. When Bud had it he said he ate enough Vitamin C to grow a leg but you know what? We cut the disease time by two thirds which gave him an opportunity to get right back to school!

Great pox is Syphilis

Green fever / sickness IS Anemia

*Grippe/grip IS Influenza like symptoms

Grocer's itch IS Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour

Heart sickness IS Condition caused by loss of salt from body

Heat stroke IS Body temperature elevates because of surrounding environment temperature and body does not perspire to reduce temperature. Coma and death result if not reversed

Hectical complaint IS Recurrent fever Hematemesis IS Vomiting blood Hematuria IS Bloody urine

*Hemiplegy IS Paralysis of one side of body

Hip gout IS Osteomylitis

Horrors IS Delirium tremens

*Hydrocephalus IS Enlarged head, water on the brain
I knew someone like this. When the child was born, the parents were told to wrap his head in elastic bandages. The problem was far greater than a bandage. What did people do with babies with this problem?

Hydropericardium IS Heart dropsy

Hydrophobia IS Rabies
I read a true story about a man who was bitten by a rabid dog. The dog was killed and its head was sent to the University for examination. They tossed the head in the box car of a train. It was so badly decomposed they had to make a product out of the head and inject it into a rabbit. The man died; no information on the rabbit.

Hydrothroax IS Dropsy in chest

*Hypertrophic IS Enlargement of organ, like the heart
Step grandmother had this condition for years following rhematic fever in her teens.

*Impetigo IS Contagious skin disease with by pustules
I was told I had this when I asked why I had all the scars on my face. Mother said that I wouldn't stop scratching.

Inanition IS Physical condition resulting from lack of food

*Infantile paralysis IS Polio
There was a big polio scare in Thief River Falls. Children were being sent to the cities for treatment but still dying from the disease. Some families had more than one children decease from the illness. The local theater did not allow anyone under the age of fifteen.

I had a good friend named Marilyn. We were kindergartener's together. She was fun to play with after school. One day I was told I couldn't play with her anymore. Parents then didn't give you a reason. I wondered what we had done wrong. It seems a very long time passed before I saw her in school. She has survived the polio but had one leg and foot smaller than the other. She had to have two pair of shoes because of the size difference. She could also, at that time, only wear saddle shoes. Saddle shoes were white oxford type shoes with a black 'saddle' across the laces. I don't know why but when I think about it, it must have had something to do with building them up to support that foot affected by polio.

As some of you know, I worked in the activity department of a nursing home. I met a man there who had polio as a child. He used crutches until he had a stroke. When we celebrated his life, he had pictures brought to the nursing home. I was amazed to see how many things he did, like ride horse back.

We also had a neighbor in Kansas who had polio at a young age, he too, used crutches.

None of the three above mentioned had their lungs affected. Another neighbor had a brother who was. She used to say when the family went on vacation, they rented a U Haul to haul his iron lung. During the day, he had taught himself to 'breathe by thought' but at night, as he slept, he needed the iron lung to breathe for him.

Thank goodness for vaccines!
Intestinal colic IS Abdominal pain from improper diet

The D E F of Feeling Funky

Once again, think on these diagnosis and DON'T GET SICK ON ME as you do. After all, remember I am suffereing from bone shave! (grinning).

Day fever IS Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness

*Debility IS Lack of movement, staying in bed

*Decrepitude IS Feebleness from old age
I thought the word was decrepit

*Delirium tremens IS Hallucinations due to alcoholism

*Dentition IS Cutting of teeth
Did any one ever say, "Oh my baby is suffering from dentition?"

Deplumation IS Tumor of the eyelids causing hair loss
How can an eyelid tumor cause hair loss, is that only on your eye lids? How many of you have hairy eye lids?

Diary fever IS A fever that lasts one day

Diphtheria IS Contagious disease of the throat
Thank goodness for vaccinations

*Distemper IS Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia
Lost a dog to this in the early fifties.

Dock fever IS Yellow fever

*Dropsy IS edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease

*Dropsy of the Brain IS Encephalitis Alas, another diagnosis seen on death certificates

Dry Bellyache IS Lead poisoning

Dyscrasy IS An abnormal body condition
Is this like Ying and Yang and the mixture is just not right or is it a unnamed disorder of the blood? Come on nurses, help me out here.

Dysentery IS Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and blood

Dysorexy IS Reduced appetite
Is this a diagnosis used on nursing home records for people who won't eat?

*Dyspepsia IS Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms

*Dysury IS Difficulty in urination

Eclampsy IS Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor

*Ecstasy IS A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason

*Edema IS Nephrosis; swelling of tissues

*Edema of lungs IS Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy

Eel thing IS Erysipelas EEL THING contagious skin disease caused by streptococcal infection with fever; also erysipelas, the evil or St Anthony's Fire

Elephantiasis IS A form of leprosy

Encephalitis IS Swelling of brain or sleeping sickness

Enteric fever IS Typhoid fever

Enterocolitis IS Inflammation of the intestines

Enteritis IS Inflations of the bowels

Epitaxis IS Nose bleed
Ever say this to a teacher? "I need to go to the nurses' office, I am experiencing a epitaxis!"

Erysipelas IS contagious skin disease, from Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions

Extravasted blood IS Rupture of a blood vessel

*Falling sickness IS Epilepsy

*Fatty Liver IS Cirrhosis of liver

Fits IS Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity I hate that word. It was used frequently by my grandparents. They weren't making fun of anyone. It was common use. But to say my uncle was having fits just sounded so bad!

Flux IS An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea Last time I am going to say I am in flux.

Flux of humour IS Circulation Nothing funny about this one.

*French pox IS Syphilis
Why? Because it was a "French" disease? I stopped eating at a restuarant because the manager referred to the dishwasher as "syphilic Freddy".