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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.
Deaths caused by the mysterious sweating sickness. Pages in category "Deaths from sweating sickness" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Sweating sickness is "an acute, febrile, tickborne toxicosis characterized mainly by a profuse, moist eczema and hyperemia of the skin and visible mucous membranes." [1] It affects cattle, mainly calves, [2] mostly in southern and eastern Africa. It is caused by toxins that develop in some ticks of the Hyalomma truncatum species. [3]
Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (12 October 1537 [1] – 14 July 1551), known as Lord Charles Brandon until shortly before his death, was the son of the 1st Duke of Suffolk and the suo jure 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.
He died 30 June 1528 of the sweating sickness which killed several courtiers including Anne Boleyn's brother-in-law, William Carey. [20] He was buried in the chapel at Compton Wynyates. [21] Compton is depicted in stained glass in the chapel at Compton Wynyates and at Balliol College in Oxford. [14]
[3] [2] The book has also been published in combination with The Black Death in the fourteenth century (1832) and The Sweating Sickness: A medical contribution to the story of the fifteenth and sixteenth century (1834) in a book called The Epidemics of the Middle Ages by doctor August Hirsch in 1865 after Hecker's death.
Reply: Any BBC reference indicating there is a rash associated with the sweating sickness is incorrect. Careful review of all medical historical literature is clear--the sweating sicking was rapid in onset, with symptoms consisting of malaise, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diaphoresis (excessive sweating), and a foul, putrid vapor ...
The Picardy sweat was an infectious disease of unknown cause and one of the only diseases that bears resemblance to the English sweating sickness.The Picardy sweat is also known as the miliary fever, suette des Picards in French, [1] and picard'scher Schweiß, picard'sches Schweissfieber, or Frieselfieber in German. [2]