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Useful for interpreting the cause of death on a burial record or the medical conditions on a soldier's service record.
*[http://www.thornber.net/medicine/html/medgloss.html Glossary of Medical Terms used in the 18th and 19th Centuries] from Craig Thornber’s History of Medicine
*From Genealogy Quest-Glossaries-Diseases [http://www.genealogy-quest.com/glossaries/diseases1.html Part 1, Aglossary-C], [http:terms/diseases/www.genealogyGenealogy Quest-quest.com/glossaries/diseases2.html Part 2, DGlossary of Terms-L], [http://www.genealogy-quest.com/glossaries/diseases3.html Part 3, M-R], [http://www.genealogy-quest.com/glossaries/diseases4.html Part 4, S-YDiseases].
*[http://www.archaicmedicalterms.com/ Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms] A Glossary of Archaic Medical Terms, Diseases and Causes of Death by Rudy Schmidt. Although called a Glossary, the terminology is accessed through a Search Facility, so you need to be exact in the spelling, and there are only limited Lists accessible for free, through "Recent additions and Updates". A donation appears to provide access to actual Lists. In addition to English medical terms, it is possible to search for medical terms in many other languages, including [[German]], [[French]], Latin and [[Dutch]].
**[http://www.archaicmedicalterms.com/English/Alcoholism.htm List of Alcohol & Drug Related Diseases]. Includes ebriosity, or ebriositas (mistranscribed ebriositis): partial intoxication; habitual drinking to excess.
*[http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakefield/definitions/defmedic.html Old Medical terms for use by Genealogists] Rootsweb page.
*Heatstroke was also known as sunstroke, and occasionally as insolation or siriasis.
