social disease

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Until recently, it was considered a social disease and was illegal except in limited circumstances.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

William Osler, often described as the father of modern medicine, put it like this: “Tuberculosis is a social disease with a medical aspect.”

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025

Antisemitism, like Anti-Arabism and racism, is a social disease that can be confronted only by us standing together, Syrian- and Israeli-sympathizing Americans alike.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022

"A kid is not going to get head lice unless he or she has friends. This is a social disease."

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2015

Keen-eyed observers from abroad, men of the world like Chesterfield, philosophers like Arthur Young, had at different epochs observed the symptoms of social disease and prognosticated the nature of its progress.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin