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Wahnsinn
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Insanity
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Wahnsinnig
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Insane
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Warzen
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Warts
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Waßerbauch
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Ascites; an abnormal accumulation of serous
fluid in the abdominal cavity.
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Waßerblattern
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Chickenpox
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Waßerbruch
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Hydrocele; a pathological accumulation of
serous fluid in a bodily cavity, especially in the scrotal
pouch.
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Waßerkopf
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Dropsy of the brain,
hydrocephalus;
a usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation
of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the
skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the
neural tissue.
(Entry from
an 1873 Church Record in Münster, Switzerland)
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Waßerkrebs
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Water Canker; Noma; Cancrum Oris; Gangrenous Stomatitis.
(Entry from
a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)
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Waßerpocken
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Varicella,
chickenpox
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Waßerschlag
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Water stroke
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Waßersucht
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Dropsy, edema.
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Wechselfieber
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Malaria,
ague,
intermittent fever
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Weiss Fluss, der
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The whites,
flour albis,
leucorrhea.
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Weißblütigkeit
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Leukemia
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Weiße Pocken
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Alastrim
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Weißer fluß
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Leocorrhea, flour
albis.
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Weisse Friesel
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No definition found.
Might be Miliary Fever with white pimples instead of red.
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Weißsucht
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Chlorosis; an iron-deficiency anemia,
primarily of young women, characterized by a greenish-yellow
discoloration of the skin. Also called greensickness.
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West-Nil-Fieber
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West Nile fever
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Windpocken
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Varicella,
chickenpox
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Winterdepreßion
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Seasonal affective disorder
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Wochenbett
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Childbed
(Entry from
a Church in Wisconsin)
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nach der
Wochenbett
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After
delivery.
(Entry from
a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)
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Im
Wochenbett
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In childbed
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Wochenbettfieber
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Puerperal fever
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Wochenfieber
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Puerperal fever
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Wöchnerin
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Puerpera, lying-in woman
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Wundbrand
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Gangrene
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Wundfieber
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Traumatic fever
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Wundmal
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Cicatrix,
scar, stigma
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Wundrose
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Erysipelas
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Wundstarrkrampf
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Tetanus
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Würmer
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Worms
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Wurmfieber
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Worm fever
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Wurmfortsatzentzündung
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Appendicitis
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Wurstgift
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Sausage poisoning
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Wurstvergiftung
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Sausage poisoning
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Wurzelhautentzündung
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Periodontitis
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Wut
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Anger, rage
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Wutanfall
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Tantrum
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Wutkrankheit
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Rabies, hydrophobia
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