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Find out the meaning of an archaic medical term
*[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
*[http://genealogy-quest.com/glossary-terms/diseases/ Genealogy Quest-Glossary of Terms-Diseases]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130115123649/http://www.archaicmedicaltermsantiquusmorbus.com/ english/English.htm Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms] , antiquusmorbus.com now an archived website. 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 For medical terms in many other languages, including see [[German]], [[French]]which also includes Latin terms, Latin and [[Dutch]].**[https://web.archive.org/web/20180823045822/http://www.archaicmedicalterms.com/English/Alcoholism.htm List of Alcohol & Drug Related Diseases], now an archived webpage from an alternative website archaicmedicalterms.com. Includes ebriosity, or the variant ebriositas (seen mis-transcribed ebriositis): partial intoxication; habitual drinking to excess.**[https://web.archive.org/web/20130115124304/http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/english/Heart%20Stroke.htm List of Heart & Stroke Related Causes of Death]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20171127223251/http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakefield/definitions/defmedic.html Old Medical terms for use by Genealogists] Rootsweb page, archived.
*Heatstroke was also known as sunstroke, and occasionally as insolation or siriasis.
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