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11/10/2001 1:38:49 PM EDT
Many in the early 19th century died of this disease/epidemic.  What would we call this disease today?

DaMan
11/10/2001 2:26:27 PM EDT
[#1]
Consumption?
11/10/2001 2:42:27 PM EDT
[#2]
Consumption is what they called Tuberculosis in the mid-late 1800s.  Doc Holliday died of "consumption".

I'm not sure if Tuberculosis was what they meant by "putrid fever".

DaMan  
11/12/2001 5:09:39 AM EDT
[#3]
"Putrid fever" was an old name for typhoid fever.
11/13/2001 3:53:04 PM EDT
[#4]
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"Putrid fever" was an old name for typhoid fever.
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Renamed, actually, "Putrid Fever" referred to Typhus and NOT Typhoid Fever. Typhoid Fever and Typhus are different diseases with similar symptoms.

I found an interesting site for OLD MEDICAL TERMS:  [url]http://members.tripod.com/PearlsPad/Medical.htm[/url]

DaMan