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These are old English words used by John Graunt that do not have good translations in modern English.
    
Chrisomes means a baptised child. Infant in Graunt's time meant a child who could not take care of himself (perhaps up to 4 years old). A chrisome was even younger than an infant in Graunt's terminology. Today, we define an infant as <12 mo, but that is not what Graunt meant... he was dealing with infant and young child mortality for whatever reason. This is descriptive for age but far from a diagnosis today.
   
Consumption is tuberculosis.
   
Collick is the old English spelling of colic. (A symptom, not a diagnosis today). Strangury, probably a painful micturation (male). (Another symptom).
     Flocks or
Flox is teamed with smallpox, so we can intuit it is some sort of infectious disease with a rash -- perhaps Chicken Pox, but that is a guess.
    
Flux is diarrhea. Scowring is teamed with flux, so we can assume it is associated in some way with diarrhea. (A symptom again).
   
Dropsie is edema of the lower extremeties. (Another symptom).