- Neapolitan bone-ache
- syphilisThe disease you caught from the Italians, if not the French or the Spanish:Vengeance on the whole camp or, rather, the Neopolitan bone-ache for that, methinks, is the curse... (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida)Also as the Neopolitan favour.
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. R. W. Holder. 2014.