Acute Nasal Catarrh
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Acute Rhinitis.
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Chronic Nasal Catarrh
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Chronic Rhinitis.
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Navel Ill
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A
serious septicemia of newborn animals caused by pus-producing
bacteria entering the body through the umbilical cord or opening
and typically marked by joint inflammation or arthritis
accompanied by generalized pyemia, rapid debilitation, and
commonly death—called also joint evil, joint ill,
pyosepticemia. [Merriam Webster].
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Neapolitan Disease
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Syphilis. The French
called it the Neapolitan or Italian disease.
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Necrosis
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Death of a bone or part of a bone; analogous to mortification of
the soft parts. [Thomas1875].
Death of cells or tissues through injury or disease, especially
in a localized area of the body. [Heritage].
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Moist
Necrosis
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Necrosis in which the
dead tissue is wet and soft. [Dorland]. |
Negro Consumption |
Some physicians suppose it to be a variety
of phthisis pulmonalis. The popular opinion is, that negro
consumption is caused by dirt-eating. [DeBow's Commercial Review
of the South and West 1851].
Before the Civil War, Negro Consumption was believed to be
caused by dirt eating (Chthonophagia). In time, it was
determined to be a variety of Phthisis Pulmonalis but still
considered a separate disease from the one that afflicted the
Anglo-Saxons. Eventually, science and reason prevailed and no
distinction was made between African and Caucasian disease. Also
called: African Consumption, Negro Cachexia, African Cachexia,
Struma Africana. [Schmidt 2009].
African Cachexia. [Appleton1904]. |
Nelavan
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The "African sleep disease." An endemic
disease of negroes on the West Coast of Africa characterized by
morbid somnolence, headache, and emaciation. It is usually
fatal. [Tuke1892].
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Neoplasm
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An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose. [Wordnet].
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Nephria
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Nephritis.
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Nephritis
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Any of various acute or chronic inflammations of the kidneys, such
as Bright's disease. [Heritage].
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Chronic Nephritis
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Inflammations of the kidneys. [Heritage].
Example
from an 1889 New York State
Death Certificate:

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Glomerlonephritis
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Renal disease marked
by bilateral inflammatory changes in glomeruli that are not the
result of kidney infection. Also called glomerular nephritis.
[American Heritage].
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Interstitial
Nephritis
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Nephritis in which
the interstitial connective tissue is chiefly affected.
[American Heritage].
Example
from a 1915
Death Certificate from Massachusetts:

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Parenchymatous
Nephritis
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Nephritis affecting
the parenchyma of the kidney. [Mosby's Medical Dictionary].
Parenchyma - The
tissue characteristic of an organ, as distinguished from
associated connective or supporting tissues. [American Heritage]
Example
from a 1915
Death Certificate from Massachusetts:
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Suppurative
Nephritis
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Focal
glomerulonephritis with abscess formation in the kidney.
[American Heritage].
Example from an 1897 Death
Record from Michigan

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Nephrolith
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A calculus formed in the kidney; Kidney Stone. [Heritage]
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Nephrolithiasis
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The presence of kidney stones (calculi) in the kidney. [Wordnet]
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Nerve Pang
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Neuralgia
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Nervous Debility |
Neurasthenia. [Gould1916].
Example from an 1877 death certificate
from West Virginia:
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Nervous Exhaustion
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Nervous Prostration
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Nervous Fever
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Typhoid Fever,
Febricula, Little Fever. [Symptom, Nature, etc. of the Febricula
or Little Fever, Manningham, 1746].
A variety of typhus mitior of Cullen, but many
considered as a distinct disease. It mostly begins with the loss
of appetite, increased heat and vertigo; to which succeed nausea,
vomiting, great languor, and pain in the head, which is variously
described, by some like cold water pouring over the top, by others
a sense of weight. The pulse, before little increased, now becomes
quick, febrile, and tremulous; the tongue is covered with a white
crust, and there is great anxiety about the precordia. Towards the
seventh or eighth day, the vertigo is increased, and tinnitus aurium,
cophosis, delirium, and a dry and tremulous tongue, take place.
The disease mostly terminates about the fourteenth or twentieth
day. [Hooper1843].
Typhus Mitior.
[Dunglison1868].
Any fever characterized by decided derangement
of the nervous system, especially typhus fever and typhoid fever.
[Appleton1904].
Example from an 1828 death certificate
from Pennsylvania:

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Nervous Pain
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Neuralgia
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Nervous Prostration
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An emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work.
[Wordnet].
Example from a 1917 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Nervousness
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Excessive excitability and irritability, with mental and physical
unrest. [CancerWEB]
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Nettlerash
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Elevations of the
cuticle, or wheals resembling the sting of the nettle. See
Urticaria. [Hoblyn1855]
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Nettlespringe
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Urticaria
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Neuralgia
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A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating
or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends
to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve.
It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. --Dunglison.
[Webster1913].
Example from an 1859 death certificate
from West Virginia:

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Neuralgia Femoropoplites
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This is characterized by pain following the great sciatic nerve
from the ischiatic notch to the ham, along the peroneal surface
of the leg to the sole of the foot. It is often considered to be
a form of rheumatism. [Dunglison1874].
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Neurasthenia
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A psychological disorder characterized by chronic fatigue and weakness,
loss of memory, and generalized aches and pains, formerly thought
to result from exhaustion of the nervous system. No longer in scientific
use. [Heritage].
Example from an 1897 Death
Record from Michigan

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Neuritis
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Inflammation of a nerve or group of nerves, characterized by pain,
loss of reflexes, and atrophy of the affected muscles. [Heritage].
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Neuritis
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Inflammation of a nerve or group of nerves, characterized by pain,
loss of reflexes, and atrophy of the affected muscles. [Heritage].
Example from an 1897 Death
Record from Michigan

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Neuropathy
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Affection of the nervous system or of a nerve. [Webster1913].
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Neurosis
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A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known
neurological or organic dysfunction (syn: neuroticism, psychoneurosis)
[Wordnet].
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Nevoid Elephantiasis
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Pachyderma.
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New World Spotted Fever
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
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Night-soil Fever
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Typhoid Fever,
Enteric Fever. [A Treatise on the Continued Fevers, Wilson,
1881].
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Noli Me Tangere
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(touch me not). A
name given by various writers to lupus. The disease is termed
from its impatience of handling, and its being aggravated by
most kinds of treatment. [Hoblyn1855].
Example from an 1897 Death
Record from Michigan

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Noma
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Water canker; a form
of sphacelus occurring generally in children. [Hoblyn1855].
A severe, often gangrenous inflammation of
the mouth or genitals, occurring usually after an infectious disease
and found most often in children in poor hygienic or malnourished
condition; Gangrenous Stomatitis. [Heritage].
A spreading invasive gangrene chiefly of the
lining of the cheek and lips that is usually fatal and occurs most
often in persons severely debilitated by disease or profound nutritional
deficiency —see Cancrum Oris. [Merriam].
Gangrenous processes
of the mouth or genitalia. In the mouth (cancrum oris,
gangrenous stomatitis), it begins as a small gingival ulcer and
results in gangrenous necrosis of surrounding facial tissues.
The condition on the genitalia is called erosive balanitis in
males and erosive vulvitis in females. [Dorland].
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Nonvenereal Syphilis
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Syphilis caused by organisms closely related to Treponema pallidum;
spread by personal, but not necessarily venereal, contact; usually
acquired in childhood, most common in areas of poverty and overcrowding;
rare in the United States; includes yaws, pinta and bejel. [CancerWEB].
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Noodlepox
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Syphilomania
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Norwegian Leprosy |
Radesyge. [Hoblyn1855]. |
Nosebleed
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Epistaxis.
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Nostalgia
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Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia,
due to homesickness. [Webster].
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Numpost
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Abscess.
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