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1863 J. T. Arlidge Rep. to Children's Employment Comm. in Parl. Papers xviii. 106 The potters..are especially prone to chest disease, to pneumonia, phthisis, bronchitis, and asthma. One form would appear peculiar to them and is known as potter's asthma or potter's consumption.

1892 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 55 580 Generally speaking, their high mortality is to be attributed to the fine and very irritating dust which engenders ‘potter's asthma’, i.e., the chronic bronchitis accompanying emphysema.

1911 A. Bennett Hilda Lessways (1925) i. iv. 581 She knew what a pawnshop was, her father being often out of a job owing to potter's asthma.

1966 M. Bruce Coming of Welfare State iii. 50 The occupational diseases..were intensified by the conditions created by the coming of steampower and factory working, grinder's and potter's ‘asthma’, lead-poisoning and the like.