Grippe can be any kind of contagious viral disease, but traditionally it was used for what we now call influenza.
Grippe is an old fashioned word for the flu — the virus that can give you a fever, sore throat, and a headache.
Snirl. Besides being a long-forgotten dialect word for the nose—or for the metal hoop pierced through a bull's nostrils—snirl or snurl is an old 18th-century dialect word for a stuffy head cold.
In 1743, what Italians called an influenza di catarro (“epidemic of catarrh”) spread across Europe, and the disease came to be known in English as simply “influenza.”
The historical diagnosis of dropsy – which is now obsolete – indicated simply an abnormal accumulation of fluid; the word derives from the Greek hydrops (water).
Dropsy: An old term for the swelling of soft tissues due to the accumulation of excess water. In years gone by, a person might have been said to have dropsy. Today one would be more descriptive and specify the cause. Thus, the person might have edema due to congestive heart failure.
Edema, also spelled oedema, and also known as fluid retention, dropsy, hydropsy and swelling, is the build-up of fluid in the body's tissue.
The 1977 pandemic — called the 'Russian Flu' — was caused by the Human influenza H1N1 virus.
There are four types of influenza viruses: A, B, C, and D. Influenza A and B viruses cause seasonal epidemics of disease in people (known as flu season) almost every winter in the United States. Influenza A viruses are the only influenza viruses known to cause flu pandemics (i.e., global epidemics of flu disease).
/ˈleɪdi/ An old-fashioned or extremely polite word for "woman" is lady.
From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”).
The 1968 pandemic was caused by an influenza A (H3N2) virus comprised of two genes from an avian influenza A virus, including a new H3 hemagglutinin, but also contained the N2 neuraminidase from the 1957 H2N2 virus. It was first noted in the United States in September 1968.
An epidemic of Asian (A2) influenza that occurred in the USSR early in 1965 was the fourth wave of Asian influenza there since 1957, when the disease became pandemic, spreading through all countries and continents. The 1965 epidemic was severe, in several cities even more so than the 1957 pandemic.
1957-1958 Pandemic (H2N2 virus) Print. In February 1957, a new influenza A (H2N2) virus emerged in East Asia, triggering a pandemic (“Asian Flu”).
The 1968 flu pandemic was a global outbreak of influenza that originated in China in July 1968 and lasted until 1969–70. The outbreak, which is sometimes called the Hong Kong flu of 1968, was the third influenza pandemic of the 20th century.
Three worldwide (pandemic) outbreaks of influenza occurred in the 20th century: in 1918, 1957, and 1968.
During the 1972–1973 flu season in the Northern Hemisphere, a new variant of influenza, dubbed the 'London flu' by the press in the United States, was responsible for epidemics in many countries.
The 1985-1986 influenza B epidemic that peaked in February 1986 was the largest influenza B epidemic in the United States since the 1968-1969 influenza season. It was caused primarily by virus strains that were antigenically distinct from preceding strains.
The Winter Fever, as pneumonia was once known, has been traced back through history. Symptoms of pneumonia were first described by the Greek physician Hippocrates around 460 BC.
Tuberculosis (TB) was called “phthisis” in ancient Greece, “tabes” in ancient Rome, and “schachepheth” in ancient Hebrew. In the 1700s, TB was called “the white plague” due to the paleness of the patients. TB was commonly called “consumption” in the 1800s even after Schonlein named it tuberculosis.
The term bronchitis itself was coined by Badham in 1808 to describe “an inflammatory affection of the mucus membrane which lines the bronchial tubes.”2 The descriptor, chronic, was added in 1837, but for some time the disease continued to be referred to as chronic mucus catarrh or just chronic catarrh.
Prognosis. By the time a disorder reaches the point of causing dropsy, it can often be fatal and at the very least the fish is very ill and requires immediate quarantine and treatment.
Background: Dropsy was a term used to describe generalized swelling and was synonymous with heart failure. Its treatment options were scanty and were aimed to cause "emptying of the system" or to relieve fluid retention.