Outdated Medical Terminology
Over time, many disease names have changed. Below is a list of some of the old terms that you may come across and their current names.
| Outdated Term | Current Term |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| bad blood | syphilis |
| blood poisoning | septicemia (overwhelming bacterial infection) |
| Bright's disease | glomerulonephritis (serious kidney disease) |
| consumption | tuberculosis, pulmonary |
| cretinism | hypothyroidism, congenital |
| dropsy | congestive heart failure |
| fatty liver | cirrhosis |
| glandular fever | mononucleosis |
| grippe | influenza (flu) killed lots of people in 1918 |
| 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 (high blood pressure & seizures) |