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Lagerfieber

Camp fever, Typhus

 

Lähmung

Palsy, paralysis

Landseuche

Endemic Disease

 

Langwierig Entzündung

Protracted inflammation

 

Langwierig Schwindsucht

Protracted consumption

 

Laryngotrachitis Inflammation of the larynx and trachea.

 

Läuse

Lice

 

Laxieren

Bowel Purging

 

anfallend Brechen und Laxieren

Attack of vomiting and purging

 

Lebensmüdigkeit Weariness of life. [Lang 1914].

 

Lebensschwäche

Defective vitality, debility. [Lang1932].

Failure to thrive.

(Entry from a Church in Wisconsin)

 

Leber Krankheit

Liver disease.

(Entry from a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)

 

Leberentzündung

Hepatitis

 

Leberkrebs

Liver cancer

 

Leberleiden

Liver affection

Leber-Magenverhärtung

Induration of the liver and stomach

 

Leberschrumpfung

Cirrhosis

 

Leberzirrhose

Cirrhosis of the liver

 

Legionärskrankheit

Legionnaires' disease

 

Leibesverstopfung

Constipation

 

Leibschaden

Bodily infirmity or defect; rupture. [Lang 1914].

(Entry from an 1850 Church Record in Branna, Czech Republic)

 

Leibschmerz

Abdominal pain, colic, griping pain.

Leiden

Affection, complaint

 

Leidenschwäche

Weakness from suffering.

 

Leishmaniose Kutane

Cutaneous leishmaniasis

 

Leishmaniose Viszerale

Visceral leishmaniasis

 

Leistenbruch

Inguinal hernia

 

Lethargie

Lethargy

 

Lethargus

Lethargy

 

Leukämie

Leukemia

 

Liebeskrankheit

Lovesickness

 

Lipom

Adipose tumor

 

Lippengeschwür

Canker

 

Lombardischer Außatz

Pellagra

 

Lues

Lues, syphilis

 

Luftkrankheit

Airsickness

 

Luftmangel

Deficient air

 

Luftröhrenentzündung

Bronchitis.

Inflammation of the trachea or bronchi. [Lang1932]

(Entry from an 1849 Church Record in Münster, Switzerland)

 

Akute Luftröhrenentzündung

Acute bronchitis.

(Entry from a Church in New York)

 

Luftröhrenkrankheit

Tracheal or bronchial disease. [Lang1932]

(Entry from a Church in New York)

Luftröhrenschwindsucht

Laryngeal or bronchial phthisis

Lungeheilstätten

Tuberculosis

 

Lungekatarrh

Bronchial catarrh

 

Lungenembolie

Pulmonary embolism

 

Lungenbrand

Gangene of lung. [Lang 1914].

(Entry from an 1849 Church Record in Branna, Czech Republic)

 

Lungenemphysem

Pulmonary emphysema

 

Lungenfieber

Pulmonary fever

(Entry from a Church in Wisconsin)

 

Lungenentzündung

Pneumonia, acute pulmonary congestion

(2nd Entry from an Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jagsthausen, Germany)

Lungengeschwür

Pulmonary abscess

Lungenkrankheit

Pulmonary Disease.

(Entry from a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)

 

Lungenkrebs

Lung cancer

 

Lungenlähmung

Edema of the lung, paralysis of the lung.

 

Lungenleiden

Pulmonary disease

Lungenschlag

Pulmonary apoplexy; pulmonary edema

 

Lungenschwäche

Weakness of the lungs.

(Entry from a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)

 

Lungenschwindsucht

Bronchial phthisis

Lungensucht

Pulmonary consumption, Pulmonary tuberculosis.

(Entry from a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)

 

Lungentuberkulose

Pulmonary tuberculosis

 

Lungespitzenkatarrh

Bronchial catarrh

 

Lungsucht

Pulmonary consumption, Pulmonary tuberculosis.

(Entry from a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)

 

Lupos

Tuberculosis in the face

 

Lupus

Lupus

 

Lustseuche

Syphilis, yaws

 

Lyme-Krankheit

Lyme disease

 

 

 

 

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