sweating sickness in English
noun
1
any of various fevers with intense sweating, epidemic in England in the 15th–16th centuries.
They lived at Ludlow Castle, but had little time together, for poor Arthur died only a few months later, perhaps of tuberculosis or the fever called the sweating sickness .
noun
miliary fever
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1. • At first I thought it was some Ague but it proved to the Sweating Sickness
2. At first I thought it was some ague but it proved to the Sweating Sickness.
3. MedicalHistory, 1997, 41: 362-384 TheEnglish Sweating Sickness of1551: anEpidenmic Anatomized ALANDYER* In 1551 thereoccurredthefifth andlast
4. A HISTORY OF EPIDEMICS IN BRITAIN (VOLUME I OF II) CHARLES CREIGHTON He excused himself, says the Croyland Annalist, on the ground that he was suffering from the sweating sickness.