Diseases and Treatment - A

  • Abdomen in Disease (tenderness, local and general enlargement).
  • Abominal Dropsy (ascites). See also: Dropsy.
  • Abdominal Injuries (bruises, contusions, incisions, lacerations).
  • Abortion. See also: Diseases of Women.
  • Abscess (acute and chronic, superficial and deep-seated).
  • Acid Poisoning. See instead: Poisons.
  • Acholia. See instead: Diseases of the Liver.
  • Acne (blackheads, pimples, flesh worms, whiskey nose).
  • Aconite Poisoning. See instead: Poisons.
  • Acrodynia (painful joints). See also: Breakbone Fever or Dengue.
  • Acromegaly (enlargement of bones).
  • Actinomycosis (disease from vegetable fungus).
  • Addison's Disease (bronzed skin, degeneration of renal capsule).
  • Adenitis. See instead: Gland Fever.
  • Adenoma (small tumors). See also: Polypus, Bronchocele, Cysts or Tumors.
  • Agoraphobia (abnormal fear of strangers).
  • Agraphia (inability to write).
  • Ague (intermittent fever, chills and fever). 
  • Albino (albinoism, albinismus).
  • Abuminuria (abumen in the urine). See instead: Bright's Disease.
  • Alcoholism (acute, chronic, inebriety, delirium tremens).
  • Alexia (inability to read). See also: Myelitis.
  • Allocheiria (imperfect sense of touch). See also: Myelitis.
  • Alopecia. See instead: Hair Diseases.
  • Alveolar Cancer. See instead: Cancer.
  • Amaurosis. See instead: Eye Diseases.
  • Amenorrhoea. See instead: Diseases of Women.
  • Amimia (inability to convey thoughts).
  • Amyloid Disease. See also Phtisis, Syphilis, Kidney Diseases, Liver Diseases or Spleen Diseases.
  • Anaemia (thin blood, chlorosis, green sickness).
  • Anemia of the Brain. See instead: Brain Diseases.
  • Anaesthesia (analgesia, loss of sensation).
  • Anasarca. See instead: Dropsy.
  • Ankylosis / Anchylosis (stiffness of the joints).
  • Angina Pectoris (chest spasm, breast pang).
  • Anidrosis. See also: Perspiration.
  • Ankle Injuries. See instead: Fractures, Sprains or Dislocations.
  • Anosmia (loss of sense of smell).
  • Anthrax (malignant pustule, charbon, wool-sorters' disease).
  • Aneurism (bloody tumor, tumor of the artery).
  • Anus (fissues, prolapsus, ulceration).
  • Aphasia (loss of power of speech).
  • Aphonia (loss of voice).
  • Aphtha. See instead: Thrush.
  • Aphthous Ulcers. See instead: Mouth Ulceration.
  • Aphthous Fever. See instead: Foot and Mouth Disease.
  • Apnoea (without breath).
  • Apoplexy (hemorrhage in the brain).
  • Appendicitis (faecal abscess, typhlitis).
  • Arsenic Poisoning. See instead: Poisons.
  • Arthritis. See instead: Rheumatism of the Joints.
  • Articular Rheumatism. See instead: Rheumatism.
  • Ascaris Lumbricoides. See also: Worms.
  • Ascarus Scabies. See also: Itch.
  • Ascites / Hydro-peritoneum. See also: Dropsy.
  • Asiatic Cholera. See instead: Cholera.
  • Asphyxia. See instead: Drowning, Poisoning by Gas, Suffocation.
  • Asthenia (listlessness and inability).
  • Asthenopia. See instead: Eye Diseases.
  • Asthma (phthisic spasmodic breathing).
  • Astigmatism. See also: Eye Diseases.
  • Asymbolia (inability to communicate).
  • Ataxy (locomotor ataxy, tabes dorsalis).
  • Atelectasis (pulmonary collapse).
  • Atheroma. See instead: Apoplexy, Phthisis or Syphilis.
  • Athetosis (involuntary muscular contractions).
  • Atrophy (shrinkage of tissue).