| A | B |
| fettle | condition (fine...fettle) |
| hale | healthy |
| wan | pale or sickly |
| debility | feebleness (bodily weakness) |
| flabby | lacking firmness |
| atrophy | waste away |
| contagion | infection or spreading (contagious, adj.) |
| pestilence | disease or epidiemic (existing) |
| distemper | disease (dog) |
| appolexy | unconsciousness caused by rupture of blood vessel (stoke) |
| palsy | paralysis (shaking/trembling) |
| jaundice | disease or distorted outlook |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| chilblain | sore caused by cold weather (frost bite) |
| weal | welt |
| congenital | existing from birth |
| carrion | rotten flesh (stench) |
| carnage | slaughter (battle) |