Getting sick isn't as exciting it used to be. Here are some archaic medical terms with their definitions:
BARBER'S RASH or ITCH- Infection of hair folicles from contaminated razor
BARREL FEVER- Illness due to excessive drinking of alcohol
CANINE MADNESS- Rabies
COMMOTION- Concussion
JAIL FEVER-Typhus-
Typhus is actually one of the less serious things that could happen to you in prison.
KING'S EVIL-Scrofula, a tubercular infection of the throat lymph glands; also sometimes syphilis- This is also how the royal subjects referred to the king making "number two."
WORM FIT-Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea.
OR.....
An overpaid, whiny, temper-tantrum having freakshow.
DELIRIUM TREMENS - Hallucinations due to alcoholism