How well did you do on matching the archaic medical terms to their modern equivalent?
1. Apoplexy a. Stroke
2. Bad Blood b. Syphilis
3. Chilblain c. Exremities swollen due to cold
4. Cholera d. Severe Contagious Diarrhea
5. Consumption e. Tuberculosis
6. Diptheria f. Contagious Disease of the Throat
7. Dropsy g. Congestive Heart Failure
8. Dyspepsia h. Indigestion, Heartburn
9. Flux i. Excessive discharge, like diarrhea
10. Grippe j. Influenza
11. Infantile Paralysis k. Polio
12. Jail Fever l. Typhus
13. Lock Jaw m. Tetanus
14. Lumbago n. Back Pain
15. Podagra o. Gout
16. Quinsy p. Streptococcal Tonsillitis
17. Scrofula q. Tuberculosis in neck lymph nodes
18. Variola r. Smallpox
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