French disease:

Or: French-ache(s) / French-crown / French-fever / French-goods / French-gout / French-measles / French-mole / French-pig / French-pox , obsolete term for a venereal-disease , syphilis , gonorrhoea, etc., from a time when such diseases were blamed on foreigners, particularly those from Latin countries. To the French syphilis was known as The English Malady. See syphilis for synonyms.

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