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  • Eventually it was given the Latin name Morbus gallicus, as in Gaul, so the French were stuck holding the linguistic buck.

    NYT > Home Page By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. 2010

  • Eventually it was given the Latin name Morbus gallicus, as in Gaul, so the French were stuck holding the linguistic buck.

    NYT > Home Page By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. 2010

  • The ayre is very subtile, piercing and searching, so that if any corrupted or infected body, especially with the disease called Morbus Gallicus come there, it will presently breake forth and shew it selfe, and cannot there by any kind of salue or medicine be cured.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Mal de Naples and Morbus Gallicus-una gallica being still the popular term in neo Latin lands-and the “French disease” in England.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Morbus nihil est aliud quam dissolutio quaedam ac perturbatio foederis in corpore existentis, sicut et sanitas est consentientis bene corporis consummatio quaedam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Morbus alius pro alio curatur; aliud remedium pro alio.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Morbus est habitus contra naturam, qui usum ejus, &c. 881.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Morbus est affectus contra, naturam corpori insides.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Philippe was at breakfast reading the Debats newspaper, and wishing that what the journal said about “Cholera Morbus in the Camp of the Pretender Henri,” — “Chicken-pox raging in the Forts of the Traitor Bonaparte,” — might be true, what was his surprise to hear the report of a gun; and at the same instant — whiz! came an eighty-four-pound ball through the window and took off the head of the faithful Monsieur de

    Burlesques 2006

  • Philippe was at breakfast reading the Debats newspaper, and wishing that what the journal said about “Cholera Morbus in the Camp of the Pretender Henri,” — “Chicken-pox raging in the Forts of the Traitor Bonaparte,” — might be true, what was his surprise to hear the report of a gun; and at the same instant — whiz! came an eighty-four-pound ball through the window and took off the head of the faithful Monsieur de

    The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

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