What were common 1850's diseases?

Answer 1

The most common were: cancer (in all it's forms), cardio-vascular disease (including hypertension), lung disease (in all it's forms), Diabetes, connective tissue disease (artheritis, gout, etc.) STD's in all their forms, clinical obesity, influenza, polio, Alcoholism, and childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, chickenpox, and finally (and unbelievably) malnutrition.

Answer 2

As the "dirty thirties" progressed, the blowing soil of the Dust Bowl caused many mysterious illnesses and hundreds of people became ill with something known as dust pneumonia. The prairie dust was extremely fine - smaller than the period at the end of this sentence - with high silica content, which caused a type of silicosis similar to the black lung disease seen in coal miners back east. Asthma, influenza, eye infections, sinusitis, laryngitis and bronchitis were common ailments. Other common illnesses included cardiovascular and renal diseases, cancer, influenza and pneumonia, tuberculosis, and Diphtheria. Diphtheria is an acute bacterial disease that can infect the throat, nose, or tonsils (respiratory and/or skin (skin or cutaneous diphtheria). A common childhood disease in the 1930s.

Answer 3

Measles, mumps, small pox, pnuemonia, tuberculosis, colds, flu, Typhoid, malaria,

Answer 4

Tuberculosis, fever, influenza, whooping cough

Answer 5

paratyphoid fever

smallpox

the flu?

Answer 6

small pox misels and more known

Answer 7

TB