Began in 1996, and updated regularly, this site has collected an amazing number of genealogical links to other sites on the World Wide Web. Well worth consulting regardless of the period and region of your investigations.

Learn more about documenting your family history, the standards that have been established for genealogical documentation and why, and how to make your history on your family enlightening, and lively.

Source: Random Acts of Kindness – Family Tree Encyclopedia
This describes the various old-time Illnesses and Diseases that you will find in old documents, medical records or listed as causes of death on old death certificates or in old family Bibles.