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Vaginal Catarrh	Vaginal discharge
Valetudinary	Tendency to be in poor health or to be overly concerned about one's health
Varicella	Chickenpox
Variola	Smallpox
Venesection	Bleeding (used as a treatment)
Viper's Dance	St. Vitus dance, Chorea
Virus	An ultramicroscopic, metabolically inert infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals. In the early 1800s virus meant poison, venom, or contagion.
Volvulus	Rotation of a section of intestine such as may result from the coiling of one loop of intestine with another. Circulation of the parts is seriously interfered with causing strangulation.

War Nephritis	Acute Nephritis
Water Canker	Cancrum Oris
Water Gripes	Cholera Infantum
Water on the Brain	Hydrocephalus
Weaning Brash	Cholera Infantum
White Leg	Thrombosis of veins in the thigh. Usually seen after childbirth
White Swelling	Tuberculosis of the bone
Whitlow	Infection beginning at the edge of a nail and spreading in a line up the limb; a paronychia
Wiel's Disease	See Black Jaundice
Winter Fever	pneumonia
Womb Fever	Infection of the uterus
Woody Tongue	Name given to actinomycosis in cattle and pigs
Wool-Sorter's Disease	Anthrax
Worm Fit	Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhoea

Yellow fever

An acute, often-fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes, especially Aledes aegypti, and characterised by liver damage and jaundice, fever, and protein in the urine. In 1900 Walter Reed and others in Panama found that mosquitoes transmit the disease. Clinicians in. the late nineteenth century recognised "specific yellow fever" as being different from "malarious yellow fever." The latter supposedly was a form of malaria with liver involvement but without urine involvement.

Yellow Jacket

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