Diseases-MC

Watch out! Any one of these diseases could strike you on the ship!


 * Ague :** Any intermittent fever characterised by periods of chills, fevers and sweats. Most commonly identified as malaria. Malarial Fever. Malarial or intermittent fever characterised by paroxysms (stages of chills, fever, and sweating at regularly recurring times) and followed by an interval or intermission whose length determines the epithets: quotidian, tertian, quartan, and quintan ague (defined in the text). Popularly, the disease was known as "fever and ague," "chill fever," "the shakes," and by names expressive of the locality in which it was prevalent—such as, "Swamp fever" (in Louisiana), "Panama fever," and "Chagres fever."

** Black fever: **Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate. Black plague: **Bubonic plague. Black pox: **Black Small Pox. Black vomit: **Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever.


 * Cow Pox: **A non-fatal disease similar to smallpox, affecting cattle and transmissible to humans. Used to produce the first vaccinations.


 * Pneumonia: **Inflammation of the lungs with congestion or consolidation.


 * Scurvy: **A disease caused by severe vitamin C deficiency. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums and hemorrhages under skin.

Spotted fever: **Either typhus or meningitis.
 * Small Pox: **Highly infectious viral disease producing pustules. Contagious disease with fever and blisters.