From time to time someone will ask me to translate the Swedish words pertaining to illness and death that they find in records in Finland during their research. So I put together the following list of words most frequently encountered.
| andtäppa | asthma; shortness of breath |
| anfall | seizures |
| barnsjukdom | disease of children |
| barnsnöd | labor; travail |
| barnsängfeber | puerperal fever; childbed fever |
| benröta | diseases of the bone |
| blödning | bleeding |
| brock | hernia |
| bråd död | sudden death |
| bräcklighet | frailness |
| bröstfeber | pneumonia; infection and fever of chest area |
| bröstsjuka | sickness in chest area |
| bröstvärk | chest cold; pain in chest |
| bröstvattensot | hydropneumonia; chest dropsy |
| diarrhe | diarrhea |
| difteri | diphtheria |
| digerdöden | plague; the black death |
| dröppel | gonorrhea |
| dufvenhet | feebleness |
| dödslängd | record of death |
| dödssäng | death bed |
| dödsorsak | cause of death |
| döfstum | deaf and dumb |
| fallandesot | epilepsy |
| fallsjuka | epilepsy |
| feberfrossa | malaria |
| flussfeber | rheumatic or catarrhal fever |
| frossa | malaria |
| fylleri | drunkenness |
| fårkopper | chicken pox |
| fältfeber | typhoid fever |
| födslovärkar | labor pains |
| förfrysa | freeze to death |
| förgiftad | poisoned |
| förkyllning | cold; chill |
| förstoppning | constipation |
| gallfeber | bilious fever |
| gallsjuk | choleric |
| halsböld | throat tumor |
| halssjuka | inflammation of throat |
| halsfluss | tonsilitis |
| hetsigfeber | inflammatory fever |
| hjärnblödning | stroke; cerebral hemorrhage |
| hjärtslag | cardiac arrest |
| hosta | cough |
| hudsjukdom | cutaneous sickness |
| hungersdöd | starvation |
| håll | pleurisy |
| håll och stygn | pneumonia |
| hängsjuka | weakness; craziness |
| innansjuka | diarrhea |
| kallsvulst | phlegmatic tumor |
| kikhosta | whooping cough |
| kokoppa | cowpox |
| koppor | smallpox |
| koppärr | smallpox |
| kramphosta | convulsive cough |
| kräfta | cancer |
| kräftsår | cancerous ulcer |
| kvaft | suffocation |
| kväftning | suffocation |
| lazaretfeber | typhus |
| lefersjuka | hepatitis; liver disease |
| lunginflammation | pneumonia |
| lungsiktig | lung sickness; consumptive |
| lungsot | consumption; tuberculosis |
| magref | colic |
| magsjuk | sickness of stomach |
| magvärk | stomachache |
| messling | measles |
| missfall | miscarriage; abortion |
| mjältsjuka | spleen sickness |
| nervfeber | typhoid fever |
| njursten | kidney stone |
| njurvärk | nephritis |
| plåga | plague; pain |
| påssjuka | mumps |
| rödsot | dysentery |
| sinnessjukdom | mental illness |
| skarlakansfeber | scarlet fever |
| skendöd | asphyxia; apparent death |
| slag | stroke |
| slagfluss | apoplexy |
| smittkoppor | smallpox |
| sockersjuka | diabetes |
| sot | sickness; disease |
| starr | cataract; glaucoma |
| sting | pleurisy |
| strypssjuka | croup; quinsy |
| strypning | strangulation |
| svag | weak; feeble |
| svullnad | swelling; tumor |
| svulst | swelling; tumor |
| sårfeber | surgical or wound fever |
| tarmränna | dysentery |
| trånfeber | comsumption; lingering fever |
| trångbröstighet | asthma |
| tuberkulos | tuberculosis |
| tvinsot | asthma; consumption |
| typhus | typhoid |
| tärsot | consumption |
| utsot | diarrhea |
| vanskapad | deformed |
| varsår | ulcer; fester |
| vattenkoppor | chickenpox or waterpox |
| vattensot | dropsy |
| vattusot | dropsy |
| venerisk | venereal disease |
| ålderdom | old age |
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