morbus gallicusn.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 33/2 We have sene thys kynde come w[ith] a newe disease, whych in our tyme is spredde in to al the worlde, and is called Morbus gallicus, or the Frenche pockes.

1579 W. Clowes (title) A short and profitable treatise touching the cure of the disease called Morbus Gallicus by Unctions.

1606 Cruell Murther A. James sig. C3 He felt himselfe, as if he had been set into your scotch-boote, or Spanish strappando, or your Morbus gallicus, was nothing to it.

1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 34 They are good for the Ptisick and Consumptions, and some say the Morbus Gallicus.

1904 Amer. Hist. Rev. 9 787 Peter Martyr writes in 1489 of the wide prevalence of the morbus Gallicus.

1979 D. Barlow Sexually Transmitted Dis. ii. 11 Syphilis was generally referred to thereafter as the ‘morbus gallicus’.

1982 A. F. Wallace Progress Plastic Surg. ix. 89 A Greek nobleman..developed various ulcers due to Morbus Gallicus of which he was cured..by the drinking of Guaiac decoction for forty days.