Other Diseases

   Some diseases that I had never heard of before that I found in the Original Interment Records include:

1. Dyspepsia which is called indigestion today.

2. Dipthera is a infection of the upper respiratory tract. Symptoms include: a 100.4 or higher fever, chills, fatigue, bluish skin, sore throat, hoarseness, cough, headache, having trouble swallowing, having trouble breathing, foul smelling bloodstained nasal discharge. Thanks to vaccines it was wiped out in the United States.

3. Dropsy is the swelling of soft tissues because of an accumulation of excess water.

4. Apoplexy used to refer to a death that was sudden which began with a loss of consciousness.

5. Cystitis is the "inflammation of the wall of the bladder".

6. Peritonitis is "inflammation of the thin tissue that lines the inner wall of the abdomen and covers most abdominal organs".

7. Erysipelas is " a skin infection that follows strep throat".

Most of the information came from Wikipedia, the other information came from medical sites.