Out-of -date conditions

As to a quinsy - dreadful things! I had one just before doing my finals when I was almost 21 - terrible sore throat and GP gave me a bottle of the blue gargle! It got worse over the weekend and actually burst early Monday morning. Seems it should not get to that stage as is dangerous.
My mother was due to be met at Victoria station on her return from a convalescent home and I was the designated welcoming party - instead my father had the day off work and marched me up to the doctor ( just at the top of our road) and walked in with me just saying to the GP ' look at her throat!' He was white with rage - and he rarely got angry. I had to wait while the doctor boiled up the water for the syringe and he jabbed penicillin into my backside! I lost two stone in weight and had to delay returning to College for two weeks!

I think sweating sickness was Typhoid or Typus - I remember reading that somewhere.

What about Dropsy which we now call lymphodoema.

Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema are now Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Stroke is clinically a Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)

Heart Attacks are Myocardial Infarctions (MI)

I still have the vapours though.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness

I got completely side tracked by seeing a reference to this years ago when doing some family history research in Chester where there had been an outbreak.

It appears to be have been a very virulent bug which appeared in the late 15th to mid 16 century and then disappeared. I don't think anyone really knows what sort of bug it was.

That's very scary Nellie - I never understand those who bemoan the 'good old days'

I had heard that goitres used to be the result of a lack of iodine in the diet. ?prevalent in Switzerland at one time until foods were fortified with traces of it. I don't know for sure where I heard that, it might have been a Geography teacher talking about land locked Switzerland.

I think we should reintroduce swooning and fits of the vapours in the right circumstances. Done elegantly with a chaise Longue and a handsome man around ..... The possibilities are heartening.

My grandmother used to say she had a bone in her leg when she didn't want to get up to do something or other I had requested.

I always took it as a serious ailment. It was years before I cottoned on.

"Rheumatism" was use as a catch all for all sorts of ailments.

My parents used to talk about lumbago which I think was low back pain.
If so I suffer a lot from lumbago. Thinking about the word it almost certainly relates to pain in the lumbar spine region.

Weak chests were probably TB.

From my mum! "Don't walk around without socks or shoes on or you will get a chill in your tummy" Aka the trots.

To ward off a chill in the kidneys, my mum made me, in my teens, wear woolly knickers. I later realised that these provided the perfect breeding gound for candida - aka thrush. Luckily the said knickers shrank in the wash.

I'm thinking anno that chills in the kidneys may be a very Scottish ailment!
Mum insisted on vests tucked into knickers to keep the kidneys warm.
Why don't my DGDs suffer whenever they wear crop tops?

Has anybody mentioned having a bilious attack?

I was told that a goitre was named after the Goyt Valley in Derbyshire where there was a lack of iodine. I've forgotten what caused the said lack as it was a very, very long time ago!

My niece has just been diagnosed with Bell's Palsy. So it does very much still exist.
I have had a benign tumour on my thyroid for many years, and they used to be called Goitre, I think.

Someone has a weak constitution.
I think I have one, but you dont hear it talked about now I dont think?

A bilious attack was a good excuse for a day off school. Very difficult to disprove. My granny was always complaining about lumbago which I assume is what we now refer to as arthritis. She had a terribly arthritic thumb joint but still did lovely embroidery.

My mum always said she was a "creaky gate" meaning she was never 100 per cent fit. She lived to be 90!

My granny didn't have a bilious attack - she had 'the bile'! And what was ague? Don't think I'd get away with a fit of the vapours..probably just be told to get a grip or stop freaking!

My Dad was often having 'bilious' attacks and taking to his bed in the dark, I think it was maybe migraine , today he'd get treatment for it but not in those days.

My mum said that too Falconbird! She was told she was by the doctor many years ago.
She is currently in her mid eighties, only has minor problems, and going well.

Goitre is caused by lack of iodine and where I live in South Germany we buy salt with iodine in it and it can be diagnosed very early nowadays.

I had quinseys at 17 and couldn't swallow and rememember lying in bed with the family standing round the bed and the doctor spooning water down my throat with a small teaspoon. This was followed by 2 weeks convalescence which included a week in 'bracing' Blackpool with my mother.
It sounds very old fashioned and no one with a job has time for any convalescence these days.

I remember the collywobbles. Never too sure what they were but possibly some sort of nervous reaction.

I read that ague was a form of malaria.

We haven't had The King's Evil yet which was scrofula or percutaneous tuberculosis.

And consumption was TB.

That's where Princess Diana was very clever and taught the Royals a think or two because her tactile appraoch was very much 'Touching the Kings Evil' which went down very well with the peasants.