Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (inflammation of)” under “Lungs” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Lungs — (inflammation of)”.
Modern literature has not yet been searched for this heading’s claims: it comes only from the 1850 index and has no search words yet.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
Inflamed, hot lungs, with pain in the chest and sides and hard breathing; in Heart’s-ease’s sentence it sits beside pleurisy, in Garden-Rue’s beside the pains of the chest and sides.
What the entries treat
2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone. Garden-Rue drank “helps the pains both of the chest and sides, as also coughs and hardness of breathing, the inflammations of the lungs, and the tormenting pains of the sciatica and the joints, being anointed, or laid to the places”; the spirit of Heart’s-ease is “a gallant remedy for the inflammation of the lungs and breasts, pleurisy, scabs, itch, &c.” Both sit under Lungs too.
pneumonia (the word means inflammation of the lungs); pneumonitis (the general word); chest infection — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
Pneumonia is the plain translation: the Greek-built word is “lung disease”, and the dictionary sense is “inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other infectious microorganisms”. The old diagnosis was the heat and the pain, not the germ, so the match is of the words and the mapping is broad; both sentences list it among several other complaints.
References
Wiktionary, s.v. “pneumonia” (accessed 2026-10-28): from Ancient Greek πνευμονία “lung disease”, from πνεύμων “lung”; “Inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other infectious microorganisms”.
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2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
Garden-RueRuta graveolensCLM-0023631850 index, pp. 159, 244
The same being drank, helps the pains both of the chest and sides, as also coughs and hardness of breathing, the inflammations of the lungs, and the tormenting pains of the sciatica and the joints, being anointed, or laid to the places;
Heart’s-EaseViola tricolorCLM-0023641850 index, p. 88Not in 1652
The spirit of it is excellently good for the convulsions in children, as also for the falling sickness, and a gallant remedy for the inflammation of the lungs and breasts, pleurisy, scabs, itch, &c.