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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Note 1104 — SECTION II. KĀBUL666 (continued 2)

Annette Susannah Beveridge translation

Sām Mīrzā specifies this affliction as ābla-i-farang, thus making what may be one of the earliest Oriental references to morbus gallicus [as de Saçy here translates the name], the foreign or European pox, the “French disease of Shakespeare” (H.B.).

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