Two centuries ago doctors were dealing with medical conditions such as burns, asthma, epilepsy, and angina that are still familiar today. However, they were also contending with deaths caused by such things asauge(malaria),dropsy(edema), orspontaneous combustion(especially of "brandy-drinking men ...
) Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree. Old (superl.) Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine;...
She never had a chapel; I therefore conclude she did not exhort her disciples, one by one in her chapel." "Her complaint may have been a case of the dropsy, but, if so, it assumed very unusual symptoms." "The roads leading to her dwelling are said to have been literally filled ...