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Scottish Slang/English
Glossary of Causes of Death and other Archaic Medical Terms
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Scottish Slang Term
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English Translation
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Abaideal
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Colic
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Arr
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Cicatrix
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Bellythra
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Colic
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Branks
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The
name in Scotland for the mumps. [Hooper1843]
Cynanche Parotidea
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Bruick
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Furuncle
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Buaicneach
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Smallpox
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Childill
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Parturition
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Crewels
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Scrofula
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Crying Out
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Parturition
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Dede
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Death
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Dismal
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Melancholy
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Drow
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Syncope
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Ethik
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Hectic Fever
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Etick
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Hectic Fever
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Glengore / Grandgore
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Syphilis
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Glupad
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Dropsy, Dropsy in throat of cattle and sheep.
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Griùrach
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Measles
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Gulschoch
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Icterus
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Gut
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Gout
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Hatrel
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Abscess
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Hasche
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Pain. [Dunglison1968] |
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Hedeverk
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Cephalalgia
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Hoist
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Tussis
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Kibe
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Chilblain
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Kink-host
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Pertussis
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Lepyr
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Lepra
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Lipper
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Lepra
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Lòinidh
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Rheumatism
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Mirles
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Rubeola
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Ploic
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Mumps
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Pockarr
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Pockmark
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Poplesy
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Apoplexy
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Reif
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Psora
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Rig
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Rachitis
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Ripples
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A popular term in
Scotland for tabes dorsalis. [Thomas1875]
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Sair
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Ulcer
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Scour
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Diarrhea
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Scrubie
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Scurvey |
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Siatag
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Rheumatism, Sciatica
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Sibbens / Sivvens
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A popular Scotch term for a
disease resembling syphilis. [Thomas1875].
A contagious disease, endemic in
Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the
throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon
the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the
itch. [CancerWEB]
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Swalme
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Tumor
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Teasick
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Phthisis
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Water Brash
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Pyrosis. An affection characterized
by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising
of watery liquid into the mouth. [Hooper1822]
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Weam-Ill
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Colic
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Wodnes
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Mania
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Wud
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Mad. [Tuke1892]
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Woursum
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Pus
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Yecke
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Psora
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Youk
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Popular Scotch term
for scabies; also called, in some districts, yuck. [Thomas1875]
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Yuck
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Scabies |
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