Cupid's disease

Cupid's Disease English Alternative forms en Cupid's Disease Noun - Cupid's disease en Q41083 en dated euphemistic en syphilis<id:Q41083>. en 1985 Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales https://books.google.com/books?id=CuwmEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT121&dq=%22cupid%27s+disease%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjplPG8x6f3AhWOJzQIHVhxDJgQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=%22cupid's%20disease%22&f=false "Yes, Cupid's Disease—syphilis, you know. I was in a brother in Salonika, nearly seventy years ago. I caught syphilis—lots of the girls had it—we called it Cupid's Disease. My husband saved me, took me out, had it treated. That was years before penicillin, of course. Could it have caught up with me after all these years?" en Elixirbet how many STDs are there? soc.sexuality.general https://groups.google.com/g/soc.sexuality.general/c/4ZC3hmfxAng/m/iBp11FtIYNUJ 2022-04-22 May 10, 2006 Post-syphilic syndrome is reputedly rather fun. You get to experience lots of luscious sexy sensations. That's why it's called Cupid's Disease. en 2010 Ralph Keyes Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms https://books.google.com/books?id=mpbt9Gv9tagC&pg=PT80&dq=%22cupid%27s+disease%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjplPG8x6f3AhWOJzQIHVhxDJgQ6AF6BAgLEAI#v=onepage&q=%22cupid's%20disease%22&f=false As the word "syphilis" took on the taint of the malady, however, vaguer tems such as special disease, social disease, secret disease, vice disease, Cupid's disease, a certain disease, blood disease, and blood poison emerged. en 2017 Kate Moore The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women https://books.google.com/books?id=NJvEDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT220&dq=%22cupid%27s+disease%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwix0v6jzaf3AhVlJzQIHfRACnU4ChDoAXoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=%22cupid's%20disease%22&f=false It wasn't Cupid's disease, as the gossipmongers charged. It was radium. en 2017 Thomas P. Habif; M. Shane Chapman; James G. H. Dinulos; Kathryn A. Zug Skin Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment https://books.google.com/books?id=NTg1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA177&dq=%22cupid%27s+disease%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjplPG8x6f3AhWOJzQIHVhxDJgQ6AF6BAgGEAI#v=onepage&q=%22cupid's%20disease%22&f=false In the past, syphilis was called the French disease but was also known as the Christian disease, the Great Pox, Cupid's disease, and the Black Lion; it was most well-known as lues, lues venereal, or venereal plague. en 2018 Susanna de Vries To the Ends of the Earth: Mary Gaunt, Pioneer Traveller https://books.google.com/books?id=lplxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT92&dq=%22cupid%27s+disease%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwix0v6jzaf3AhVlJzQIHfRACnU4ChDoAXoECAkQAg#v=onepage&q=%22cupid's%20disease%22&f=false Given the horror with which 'Cupid's disease' was regarded in 1900 Mary must have told as few people as possible of the real cause of her husband's decline into insanity. en 2020 John Fox Bershof, MD The First History of Man https://books.google.com/books?id=47MKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT522&dq=%22cupid%27s+disease%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjplPG8x6f3AhWOJzQIHVhxDJgQ6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&q=%22cupid's%20disease%22&f=false Other names for syphilis were the "Spanish disease," with a similar story to its French counterpart, and "Cupid's disease," which really needs no explanation, as well as other descriptives. en Bacterial diseases Sexually transmitted diseases