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Sweating sickness, also known as the sweats, English sweating sickness, English sweat or sudor anglicus in Latin, was a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485.
25 Σεπ 2024 · Sweating sickness, a disease of unknown cause that appeared in England as an epidemic on five occasions—in 1485, 1508, 1517, 1528, and 1551. It was confined to England, except in 1528–29, when it spread to the European continent, appearing in Hamburg and passing northward to Scandinavia and.
6 Φεβ 2015 · To the rest of us, Caius left his classic description of the disease: Account of the Sweating Sickness in England, first published in 1556. Medical speculation. A minor academic industry has...
24 Μαρ 2020 · A gruesome disease known as Sweating Sickness killed tens of thousands of people in Tudor Britain, sending King Henry VIII into a “wild panic”. Historian Tracy Borman investigates…
24 Αυγ 2017 · The king was terrified of sweating sickness, a deadly epidemic that is nearly forgotten today. Scientists are still fascinated by the mysterious disease, which swept through Europe multiple...
30 Ιαν 2017 · In summary, sweating sickness was a strange new disease confined primarily to England, with several epidemics from the late 15 th century to the early 16 th century. Although its mortality rate was high, there was no significant effect on the size of the general population.
The sweating sickness, or sudor anglicus, is one of the great puzzles of historical epidemiology because no modern disease corresponds very well to its principal epidemiological and clinical features.
