List of historical disease names
This list maps historical names for diseases to current names.
It should be noted, however, that a historical medical diagnosis can hardly be assigned to a modern disease with certainty in any case, even if the symptoms appear similar. A prominent example is the patient Ludwig van Beethoven , whose "consumption" is supposed to have been caused by typhoid, liver cirrhosis, sarcoidosis or lead poisoning, depending on the more recent source. In any case, the direct translation of historical disease names must be handled carefully.
| Historical name | Today's diseases that can be assigned to the symptoms with a certain probability |
|---|---|
| Emaciation | see emaciation |
| Albschoss | Rheumatism , lumbago |
|
Antoniusfeuer Antoni revenge |
Ergot poisoning , also anthrax , plague |
| Aposteme (a) | Greek - Latin for abscess or ulcer |
| leprosy | generalized eczema , tinea , leprosy , psoriasis , scabies |
| Emaciation | Symptoms with a loss of strength and severe underweight, e.g. B. cancer , tuberculosis ; see also # consumption |
| Anxiety | Seizures , epilepsy |
| Ascites | Ascites |
| Scroll | smallpox |
| Hemorrhage | Vomiting blood, diarrhea; often cited as the cause of death |
| Bloodstream | Dysentery , cholera and similar severe diarrheal diseases |
| fire | Gangrene , peripheral arterial disease |
| tan | diphtheria |
| bresthaft | physically or mentally handicapped, decrepit, frail |
| Consumptio | see emaciation |
| Kiln | "Drying out the juices" according to the humoral pathology ; see also emaciation |
| Fool | Plague , typhus , flu , also dizziness |
| English disease | rickets |
|
Epidemic catarrh epidemic catarrhal fever |
Flu ; see. also #russian catarrh |
| epidemic rhinitis | flu |
|
Epilepsy falling addiction |
epilepsy |
| flow |
Rheumatism , menstruation ; see. also # stroke flow , # plug flow |
| Fraisen | Epilepsy , seizures |
| Friesel, Friesel fever | Miliaria , in the broader sense any type of fever with a rash |
|
French disease (also Spanish, Gallische K., German disease) |
syphilis |
| Gallic disease | see # French disease |
| Gallbladder | Jaundice |
|
German disease ( English for "German disease") |
Syphilis ; see. # French disease |
| tumor | Tumor , goiter , corns , excess leg , warts |
| Glass frieze | Chickenpox ("waterpox") |
| Loss of limbs | cancer |
| Limb sponge | Joint pain |
| Green Star | glaucoma |
| Sore throat | Diphtheria ; see. #Tan |
| Heated illness | typhus |
| Influenza | all infections ; later flu |
| Cachexia | see emaciation |
| cancer | Ulcer , tumor , any disease that is eating away at itself, including a neglected wound or necrosis |
| Croup | diphtheria |
| Lung paralysis | general term for a cause of death due to respiratory failure after lung failure |
| Marasmus | see emaciation |
| Masel addiction | Leprosy ( leprosy ) or syphilis |
| melancholy | Depression ; see. also #Black bile |
| Spleen addiction | see #Black gall |
| Lunar addiction | somnambulism |
| Nerve fever | Typhoid or dysentery |
| Parential fever | typhus |
| Phthisis | see emaciation |
| Rotlauf | Erysipelas , shingles , eczema , acne and other rashes |
| Dysentery | Dysentery |
| Russian disease | Flu ; later also typhus |
| Russian catarrh | Flu ; see. also #Russian disease |
| Satneck | Goiter |
| Citrus | scurvy |
| Flapping flow | stroke |
| Mucous fever | typhus |
| Cold fever | flu |
| Paralysis | Parkinson's Disease |
| Black Death | Plague epidemic |
| Consumption | Tuberculosis , cancer |
| Side sickness | Pleurisy , jaundice |
| Spanish disease | see # French disease ; also Spanish flu |
| star | various eye diseases ; see also glaucoma , cataract , black star |
| Plug or stick flow | Asthma , pulmonary edema |
| Addiction | gen .: illness; see. For example #Fallsucht , #Gallsucht , #Maselsucht , #Milzsucht , #Mondsucht , #Schwindsucht , #Wassersucht , # White Addiction |
| Tabes | see emaciation |
|
Tanzwut Veitstanz |
Nervous disorders associated with muscle twitching, e.g. B. Huntington's disease , chorea , epilepsy , ergot poisoning |
| Afraid of water | rabies |
| Dropsy | Hydrops , edema , anasarca |
| Intermittent fever | malaria |
| White addiction | syphilis |
| wolf | see #Cancer ; also intertrigo , genital warts , reddening of the wound, scarring |
| worm | around eating (skin) ulcer (in horses also lymphangitis in snot ); also general illness |
| Worm fever | Inflammation of the intestines ( enteritis ) |
| Goat peter | mumps |
| Zips | flu |
| Niggles | Foot gout |
literature
- Max Höfler: German book of names of diseases. Piloty & Loehle, Munich 1899 (Reprographic reprint: Olms, Hildesheim and New York 1970 and 1979, ISBN 1-174-35859-9 ).
- Jörg Riecke : The early history of medieval medical terminology in German. Volume 2: Dictionary. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-017828-1 .
- Wolfgang Schindler, Jürgen Untermann (eds.): Flu, comb and Eulenspiegel. Festschrift for Elmar Seebold on his 65th birthday. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1999.
Web links
- List of historical disease names on danzig.de
- List of historical disease names on plbg.de
- Wolfgang Bielski: Old disease names
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in Herder's Konversationslexikon, 1854 ( online ).
- ↑ Angela Sendlinger: German foreign words . Compact Verlag GmbH, May 2008, ISBN 978-3-8174-7728-9 , p. 72 (accessed on October 11, 2012).
- ↑ a b c d flu . In: Meyers . 6th edition. Volume 8, pp. 346-347 .
- ↑ falling. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 3 : E – research - (III). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1862 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ Flusz. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 3 : E – research - (III). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1862 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ Michael Brendler: Mozart died of Frieselfieber. But what is that? In: NZZ on Sunday , June 23, 2017.
- ↑ Friesel . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 6 . Altenburg 1858, p. 744-745 ( zeno.org ).
- ↑ Krupp . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 11, Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p. 750 .
- ↑ Masel addiction . In: Johann Christoph Adelung : Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect with constant comparison of the other dialects, but especially the Upper German. Second, increased and improved edition, Leipzig 1793–1801 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ List of historical disease names on danzig.de .
- ↑ a b flu. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 9 : Greander gymnastics - (IV, 1st section, part 6). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1935 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ^ Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic Encyclopedia . Vol. 129, Berlin 1821, p. 62.
- ↑ Star . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 18, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, pp. 855–856 .
- ↑ Hans-Peter Hils: Master Albrants Roßarznei. About an unknown copy of Master Albrant's Roßarznei from the 16th century. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 3, 1985, pp. 77–99, here: p. 88 (“So daz ros has the worm between the skin in the vleisch”) and 91 f.
- ↑ The worm was thought of as a pathogen or "disease demon". worm. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 30 : Wilb – Hyssop - (XIV, 2nd section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1960 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ). Jörg Riecke: The early history of medieval medical terminology in German. Volume 1: Investigations. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-017828-1 , p. 530.