Neapolitan bone ache:

Or: Neapolitan-consolation / Neopolitan-disease / Neapolitan-favour , obsolete name for a venereal-disease , especially syphilis , dating back to a time when that disease was believed to have originated in Naples. See syphilis for synonyms.
See Also: bone ague, coccyx, jump bones, jump someone's bones, Neapolitan bone ache, Neapolitan consolation, Neapolitan favour, Neopolitan disease

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