malady of France

malady of France
   obsolete
   syphilis
   Also known as the French ache:
    My Moll is dead i' th' spital Of malady of France. (Shakespeare, Henry V — an anachronism as the disease had not been imported from the Americas in 1420)
   See also French.

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