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Jacksonian March
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The spread of abnormal electrical activity
from one area of the cerebral cortex to adjacent areas, characteristic
of jacksonian epilepsy. [Whonamedit]
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Jail Fever
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Typhus Gravior. Typhus carcerum in Latin. [Hooper1822]
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Janders
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Icterus
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Japanese Flood Fever
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Scrub
Typhus
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Japanese River Fever
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Scrub
Typhus
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Jaunders
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Icterus
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Jaundice
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A
disease proceeding from obstruction in the liver, and
characterized by a yellow color of the skin, etc. The term is
most probably a corruption of the French word jaunine,
yellowness; from jaune, yellow. [Hoblyn1855]
Icterus.
Jaundice not a disease but rather a sign. It is a sign of yellowish
staining of the skin and sclera (the whites of the eyes. The yellowing
is due to abnormally blood high levels of the bile pigment bilirubin.
The yellowing extends to other tissues and body fluids. Jaundice
was once called the "morbus regius" (the regal disease) in the belief
that only the touch of a king could cure it. [Medicinenet]
"jaundice" was first used: sometime around
1303 [Webster].
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Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Black Jaundice
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Melaena or Weil's
Disease. |
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Example from an 1871 death record
from Michigan: |
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Black Jaundice
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Melaena or Weil's
Disease.
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Blue Jaundice
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Cyanopathy. A disease in which the body is
colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation
of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
[Webster]
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Catarrhal Jaundice
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An obsolete term for viral hepatitis type A. [CancerWEB]
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Green Jaundice
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Icterus Viridis
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Lead Jaundice
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Icterus Saturninus
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Red Jaundice
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Phenigmus
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Yellow Jaundice
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Yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation
of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones
or liver infection or anemia. [Wordnet].
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Example from an 1891 death certificate
from West Virginia: |
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Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Jiggers
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Chiggers
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Jungle Fever
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Malarial Fever,
Malaria. [Stedman 1918].
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Jungle Rot
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Skin disorder induced by a tropical climate.
[Wordnet]
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