Citations:English disease

Bronchitis

 * 1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Cigarette Labeling and Advertising, 1969: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session
 * The present status of the cigarette smoke theory of the origin of the &quot;English Disease&quot; in the current  antismoking literature in England.
 * 1973, G. Ffrench, Occupational Health, Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 9789401165976, page 84
 * By the same mechanism you can soon sour your stomach, if you are sensitive enough, by imagining yourself in the saloon bar of a pub or the smoking section of a bus or train – before long you will hear the racking,  bubbling exhausting cough of the man with chronic bronchitis or “the English disease”.
 * 1976, Jay Robert Nash, Darkest Hours, Rowman & Littlefield ISBN 9781590775264, page 344
 * &quot;The English Disease&quot; has been known for centuries in Europe as a killer that strikes the lungs. The noxious fumes given off by tens of thousands of chimneys mix with fog, and when stalled warm-air masses collect over London, hundreds and sometimes thousands of persons, mostly the elderly, die.
 * 2011, George Fabian, Karl Marx Prince of Darkness, Xlibris Corporation ISBN 9781462874323, page 269
 * Little wonder that a year before death he [Karl Marx] diagnosed himself as suffering from the “accursed English disease” that impaired his intellect.

Creative or professional laziness

 * 1984, Pat Booth, Master photographers: the world's great photographers on their art and technique, Clarkson Potter
 * The English disease is that they have no respect for their own talent and when they do recognize it they don&#39;t know how to cultivate it. The English are bitter and  jealous of everyone else as well as being arrogant and lazy.
 * 2007, Sheila Hale, The Man who Lost His Language: A Case of Aphasia, Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN 9781843105640, page 28
 * John used to tell his students that Castiglione was indirectly responsible for the English Disease: laziness.
 * 2009, Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Dorothy Medlin, British-French Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN 9781443810159, page 35
 * Morellet himself once commented on this disparity, suggesting that Shelburne suffered from the English disease, aversion to writing, while admitting the French  were the most chattering and scribbling nation in the universe.
 * Morellet himself once commented on this disparity, suggesting that Shelburne suffered from the English disease, aversion to writing, while admitting the French  were the most chattering and scribbling nation in the universe.

Depression, especially when suicidal

 * 1986, Derek Jarrett, England in the Age of Hogarth, Yale University Press ISBN 9780300036091, page 177
 * Some thirty years later the Earl of Pembroke told one of his friends ironically about a French Jesuit who had caught the &#39;English disease&#39; after spending some years in Salisbury and had finished up by hanging himself á la anglaise.
 * 2007, Susan K. Morrissey, Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia, Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781139460811, page 71
 * In two months, two sons ended their lives so shamefully. There is a danger that this English disease will come into fashion with us.
 * In two months, two sons ended their lives so shamefully. There is a danger that this English disease will come into fashion with us.

Gambling

 * 2012, Julia Allen, Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale: Sport and Exercise in Eighteenth-century England, Lutterworth Press ISBN 9780718840983, page 50
 * This was the eighteenth century and the &#39;English disease&#39; was a raging epidemic. All classes and both sexes gambled [...]
 * 2006, Betina Krahn, The Book of True Desires, Penguin ISBN 9781101214954
 * “I do not have a gambling problem,” he said, displaying a surprising array of leg strength and dexterity as  he nudged and kicked aside brush.
 * “Of course you do. It&#39;s the English disease”.

Gout

 * 1991, Mosaic
 * The English disease, gout, was thought to result from excessive consumption of simple roast beef as well as elaborate puits d'amour.
 * 1989, Joe Rosenblatt, The Kissing Goldfish of Siam, Exile Editions, Ltd. ISBN 9780920428375, page 93
 * The critters attacked everything from nymphomania, excessive masturbatory impulses, skin disorders, whooping cough, venereal diseases, black eyes, warts,  and the &quot;English disease&quot; - as Arnie called gout.
 * 2014, Tristan Jones, Outward Leg, Open Road Media ISBN 9781497630826
 * “You got the English disease. [...] Ja, here it is—gout!”

Football hooliganism

 * 2002, Richard William Cox, Dave Russell, Wray Vamplew, Encyclopedia of British Football, Psychology Press ISBN 9780714652498, page 102
 * England&#39;s appearance at the finals provoked outrage as it coincided with the first major incidents at international tournaments of what came to he known as the English disease - hooliganism.
 * 2005, Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch, Penguin UK ISBN 9780141926544
 * It definitely wasn't because I couldn't take a young lady to stand on the North Bank among the thugs (even an Italian, a Juventus fan, three and a half months after Heysel): as we had seen in May, the people she spent her time with on Sunday afternoons were familiar with the symptoms of the English disease, and she had already waved away my clumsy and pious apologies on behalf of the Liverpool fans.
 * 2010, Kenny Dalglish, My Liverpool Home, Hachette UK ISBN 9781848946910
 * When it also became apparent that a lot of the fans arrested didn't have Liverpool addresses, the thought crossed my mind that maybe they were supporters of other English clubs, simply using a crowded European Cup final as an  opportunity for hooliganism. This was the mid-Eighties when the English disease, as the continentals called it, was at its ugly peak.

(Russia) Haemophilia

 * 2006, Robert Alexander, Rasputin's Daughter, Penguin ISBN 9781101201336
 * It was that the Heir Tsarevich Aleksei Nikolaevich suffered from the English disease. He was a bleeder.
 * 2007, Carolly Erickson, Alexandra: The Last Tsarina, Macmillan ISBN 9781429904025, page 147
 * When they saw that the bleeding from the tiny wound did not stop in a reasonable period of time Alix and Nicky were anxious. They knew the signs, and feared the worst. It might be the bleeding disease, the English disease, the terrible disease that had killed Irene's son Henry and that made her son Waldemar a virtual invalid much of the time.
 * 2008, Alan R. Rushton, Royal Maladies: Inherited Diseases in the Ruling Houses of Europe, Trafford Publishing ISBN 9781425168100, page 12
 * It became clear to the family that he had inherited the “English disease” and was suffering from  hemophilia.

Homosexuality

 * 2011, Tomaž Šalamun, Michael Biggins, The Blue Tower, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 9780547364766, page 19
 * My mother prayed that I not catch the “English disease.” Nigeria is homophobic, and you?
 * 2012, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Random House ISBN 9781448161584, page 179
 * We call this thing a disease and sometimes the English disease. [...] &#39;Homosexuality is the term,&#39; I said. &#39;It is not a disease.'
 * 2012, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Random House ISBN 9781448161584, page 179
 * We call this thing a disease and sometimes the English disease. [...] &#39;Homosexuality is the term,&#39; I said. &#39;It is not a disease.'

Hypochondria

 * 1956, Margaret 'Espinasse, Robert Hooke, Univ of California Press, page 126
 * They included hydrophobia, hypochondria (they were all rather knowledgeable about that, the English disease), metallurgy, shipbuilding, universal language [...]
 * 1956, Margaret 'Espinasse, Robert Hooke, Univ of California Press, page 126
 * They included hydrophobia, hypochondria (they were all rather knowledgeable about that, the English disease), metallurgy, shipbuilding, universal language [...]

Masochism, especially a fondness for flagellation

 * 1979, Norman Gelb, The irresistible impulse: an evocative study of erotic notions and practices through the ages, Grosset & Dunlap
 * Flagellation was known as &quot;the English disease&quot; because of the frequency with which it was encountered in Britain.
 * 1980, The Spectator
 * It was hard to understand why the whole venture had been transferred to the screen, but then, of course, the English disease has always been masochism.
 * 1990, Dick Francis, Enquiry, Penguin UK ISBN 9780141929590
 * The English disease. Shades of Fanny Hill. Sex tangled up with self-inflicted pain, like nuns with their little disciplines and sober citizens paying a pound a lash to be whipped.
 * 2008, R. W. Holder, Dictionary of Euphemisms, Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199235179, page 64
 * For the British the English vice, flagellation, differs from what Americans may describe as English arts, discipline, guidance, or treatment and few Englishmen  admit to suffering from the English disease.

Poor industrial relations, and the resulting economic weakness

 * 1903, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work: A History of Our Time
 * The unions, I believe, are a very small part of the English disease. Mr. Mosely says that an English workman who offers a suggestion toward improving  methods of work is likely to be &quot;sacked.&quot;
 * 1974, New Scientist, page 27
 * And in a country where the &quot;English disease&quot; is almost unheard of, this &quot;silent strike&quot; of workers has gained in popularity
 * 1993, Andrew Bard Schmookler, The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny, SUNY Press ISBN 9780791412657, page 246
 * In the decade of the 1980s, Great Britain managed, under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, to recover somewhat from the &quot;English disease.&quot;
 * 2000, Klaus Larres, Elizabeth Meehan, Uneasy Allies : British-German Relations and European Integration Since 1945: British-German Relations and European Integration Since 1945, OUP Oxford ISBN 9780191544576, page 207
 * Talk of the &#39;English disease&#39; — of lower productivity, low investment, low growth and lousy industrial relations — has given way to an obsessive concern with  Germany&#39;s perceived problem as a &#39;location&#39; for economic activity ( Standortdebatte).
 * 2015, Wayne C. Thompson, Western Europe 2015-2016, Rowman & Littlefield ISBN 9781475818857, page 66
 * She rooted out one of the main causes of the “English disease” by taking on the bosses of the most powerful unions and crushing them: the steel workers in 1980,  the coal miners in 1985 and the teachers in 1986.

Rickets

 * 2005, Jennie Hawthorne, East End Memories, The History Press ISBN 9780750954303
 * All the eight children of this family suffered from the &#39;English&#39; disease, rickets caused by lack of calcium and vitamins.
 * 2012, E. Robert Paul, The Life and Works of J. C. Kapteyn: An Annotated Translation with Preface and Introduction by E. Robert Paul, Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 9789401119405, page 1
 * Born in 1812 in a place called Bodegraven, where his father had been head of the municipal school, grandfather suffered from the "English disease", which was  noticeable by the large size of his skull.
 * 2013, ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Jay M. Harris, Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia: Select Documents, 1772-1914, Brandeis University Press ISBN 9781611684568, page 283
 * Dampness in a room often causes rheumatism, the English disease, and scrofula.
 * Dampness in a room often causes rheumatism, the English disease, and scrofula.

Sweating sickness

 * 1956, Journal of the South African Veterinary Medical Association
 * The true nature of sweating sickness and of its connection, if any, with the Picardy Sweat will probably remain unknown. In view of the justifiable terror aroused by the English disease at least, it is, without  question, best that man should be spared another visitation even if science  suffers.
 * 1956, Journal of the South African Veterinary Medical Association
 * The true nature of sweating sickness and of its connection, if any, with the Picardy Sweat will probably remain unknown. In view of the justifiable terror aroused by the English disease at least, it is, without  question, best that man should be spared another visitation even if science  suffers.
 * 1956, Journal of the South African Veterinary Medical Association
 * The true nature of sweating sickness and of its connection, if any, with the Picardy Sweat will probably remain unknown. In view of the justifiable terror aroused by the English disease at least, it is, without  question, best that man should be spared another visitation even if science  suffers.

Syphilis

 * 1819, François Xavier Swediaur, A comprehensive treatise upon the symptoms, consequences, nature, and treatment of venereal, or syphilitic, diseases. Transl, page 69
 * It seems that the various names, Persian fire, Naples disease, French disease, and the English disease of St. Paul&#39;s bay in Canada, ought all to be reduced to  the same meaning.
 * 2007, Susanne Dunlap, Emilie's Voice: A Novel, Simon and Schuster ISBN 9781416588542, page 79
 * Her quick thinking and luck made it unnecessary for her to join a “stable” or to stay in a whorehouse surrounded by other prostitutes, most of whom died before  reaching their fortieth birthdays, either from the English disease, at the hands of inept abortionists, or at the hands of men who thought that women who forfeited their virtue also forfeited their right to live.
 * 2010, Anne Stuart, Ruthless, MIRA ISBN 9781426864018, page 285
 * Though in fact the English disease, as well as other, lesser misfortunes, were easy enough to avoid if one was careful in one&#39;s choices. [...] And there were contraptions to avoid illness, envelopes made of sheep guts or linen soaked in chemicals.
 * 2015, Jacqueline Briskin, The French Passion, Open Road Media ISBN 9781453293676
 * “What else can a girl do, ma&#39;am? And there&#39;s my brother. I ... I ain&#39;t pretty, but some men, they likes young girls. They thinks there&#39;s less chance of catching the English disease.”

Tuberculosis

 * 1837, Charlotte Campbell Bury, Anna Maria Hall, The Divorced: Tales of Woman's Trials, page 80
 * ... they feared she was going into a consumption, and some ladies professed themselves unwilling that she should be too much with their daughters, for they  said, “that English disease is so catching, half the young English girls are poitrinaire.
 * 1852, Thomas Henry Burgess, Climate of Italy in relation to pulmonary consumption, page 55
 * M. Carriere cannot understand why the English prefer Nice to other parts of the continent of a milder and more favoured climate, &quot;unless it be from the  circumstance of the English disease being generally of a scrofulous nature.&quot;
 * 1868, the medical press and circular, page 75
 * The people were so afraid of catching the English disease. Along the Riviera the same belief is prevalent. Some of the people will assure you positively that  consumption was unknown until the English brought it