A Utah listener recalls a story about her German-speaking mother-in-law referring to a childhood illness as the German disease. In English, the term most commonly referred to syphilis, a disease that different cultures blamed on their neighbors with...
shotgun hunt v.— «The shotgun hunt will be a quick series of test one at a time to check for tuberculosis, diabetes, anemia, and some kinds of cancer and heart diseases, syphilis, and other diseases.» —“Shotgun Medical Test Is Next Big Health...
