Housemaid's knee and other ailments that should have died out

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Today I woke up with my knee all weirdy and stiff. It was totally fine yesterday and I haven't knocked it or anything. But it was too sore for the gym.

Dr Google informs me that I have housemaid's knee.

I mean, really?! Wtf? I am not an apple cheeked Edwardian scullery girl.

What other ailments sound ridiculously old fashioned to you? And will someone please make me feel better by telling me that they have the King's Evil?

There was a boy at my school who had trepanning done. I remember it clearly because we were all told about it by the head teacher as it was so unusual.

I had Legg-Calve-Perthes disease as a kid. Basically hip disease, needed a length of femur sawn off and a pin in to set it. I like the apt name! Fine now though!

When I had quinsy my friends thought it was hilarious to text and ask how life in the Victorian era was treating me. Bunch of vipers.

I've had quinsy, pleurisy and pneumonia.

Nothing as usual as some of these though!

Game keepers thumb
Skiers thumb
Tennis leg
Tennis elbow
Golfers elbow
Mothers thumb
Swimmers shoulder
Policeman’s heel

BroomstickOfLove Is that haemachromatosis? My brother has that. Not too advanced at the moment though.
My nephew has had quinsy three times! Very unpleasant.
I had Scarlet Fever when I was a child in the 1960s

Weaver's bottom.

DH had a slow-growing goitre removed last year along with half his thyroid gland- it was a multi-nodular benign cyst.

DD1 has knock-knees, due to hypermobility syndrome.

I once heard someone had Farmer's lung. I thought they were joking but it's actually a disease.

My elderly neighbour had a horrendous infection in his leg last week and had to be carted off to y hospital. His wife told me it was an open wound that nearly went down to the bone and they were using a dressing of maggots to help it heal as they eat away the dead tissue . Now that sounds medieval!

Using leaches

I always think shin splints sounds odd and Achilles heel.

I have come across a few cases of what should be historic diseases like measles, whooping cough, mumps etc.

My son too @Pomegranatemolasses !

Milk leg. The was a deep vein thrombosis occurring after childbirth.It was thought to be caused by breast milk travelling to the mother's leg.
I had scarlet fever as a child in the 1950s .
There was also something called Writer's Cramp which was muscle strain in the wrist.
The Royal Disease which was Heamophilia.

He bought some special knee pads so he can scrub the floors in comfort

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Sorry. This made me laugh out loud

Oh my goodness! I am goggling at your freakish health conditions massively sympathetic to you all.

I think Pigeon Fancier's Lung may be my favourite 🕊😍

Gout is a form of arthritis, bloody painful!

I used to get chilblains when I was a child. I swear this was in the 1980’s not the 1880’s

My friend, a pianist, had repetitive strain injury. I now feel that should have been called 'pianist's wrists.'

Ooh I’m sure I could come up with a few others but off the top of my head:
Labrynthitis
Toxic Megacolon
Broken heart syndrome
Flesh-eating bacteria

Rheumatism- I think this is now called Fibromyalgia.

Scabies- sounds awful.

DH had chilblains also, before central heating.

Varicose veins.

Carpal tunnel always sound intriguing. Not sure exactly what it is though but to do with the hand.

I worked in a nursery school early 90s and caught scabies the treatment was the same as headlice treatment but for your hands urgh! My DH has tennis elbow

Carpal tunnel is a tight tendon running from your wrist to your thumb

I was reading a nineteenth century document written by a forebear and they mentioned someone having a whitlow. As their language was peppered with dialect, I assumed this was another example, but it turns out whitlows are real things, and furthermore, a modern, practicing GP mentioned it to someone on the tv only the other week!

One of my Dcs caught Impetigo at a playgroup once, i was horrified, we had to go to the GPs for some cream for it. Thankfully it cleared up quickly.