potter's asthma (uncountable)
- 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.
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