potter's asthma

English

Noun

potter's asthma (uncountable)

  1. emphysema of the lungs, once common among potters
    • 1871, Robert Abercrombie, New medical system eleventh edition
      A species of asthma is rather common in some parts of North Staffordshire , commonly styled " Potter's Asthma . " The symptoms are similar to those of moist asthma . The causes are referrible to the peculiar and unhealthy occupation
    • 1885, George Moore, A Mummer's Wife:
      the people who worked there [the platemakers], he said, usually suffered from what is known as the potter's asthma.

References
  • potter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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