Sweating Sickness
an extremely fatal epidemical disorder which ravaged Europe, and especially England in the 15th and 16th centu ravaged name "because it did most stand in centuries. It derives its sweating from the beginning till the name "because it did most stand in in Englande, it was named in other countries the Englishe sweat." It first appeared in London in September, 1485, shortly after the entry of Henry VII. with the army which had won the battle a violent inflammatory fever which after of Bosworth Field on Aug. 22. It was the world. a short rigor, prostrated the powers as with a blow, and, amid painful oppreswith a blow, and, amid pai sion at the stomach, headache, and lethplace in the course of a few hours and painful oppresplace in the course of a few hours and the crisis was always over within the with a fetid perspiration. All this took space of a day and night. The internal heat which the patient suffered was intain death. It lasted in London from tain death.
Sept. 21 to the end of October, during which short period "many thousands" died from it. The physicians could do It lasted in London from little or nothing to combat the disease, which at length was swept away from Year's Day.
England by by a violent tempest on New in London, and in July, 1517, it again broke out in London in a most virulent in London, and in July, 1517, it again In the summer of 1508 it reappeared form, carrying off some of those who this occasion the epidemic lasted about were seized by it within four hours. On which the French army before Naples four months. In May, 1528-the year in this occasion the epidemic lasted about was destroyed by pestilence, and in which the putrid fever known as Trousse-ga- was destroyed by pestilence, and in which lant decimated the youth in France-the sweating sickness again broke out in lant decimated the youth in France-the London, and spread rapidly over the whole kingdom. ently died out in England, it appeared in Germany, first at Hamburg, where it is recorded that 8,000 persons died of it, The following summer, having and shortly after at Lübeck, Stettin, ing apparand shortly after at Lübeck, Stettin, etc. In Se Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, whence it penetrated into Lithuania, Poland, and Livonia; but after three
September it broke out in the months it had entirely disappeared from all these countries. For 23 years the months it had entirely disappeared from Poland, and Livonia; but after three when for the last time all these countries. For 23 years the spread rapidly over the whole of England, but disappeared by the end of Sepime (March or April, tember. Since 1551 the disease has never appeared as it did then and at earlier frequent, but usually limited, epidemics periods. Its nearest ally is sudamina or military eruption, which has appeared in periods. Its nearest ally is sudamina or times, as in the department of Vienna in ing the 18th and 19th centuries, some- 1887, in so severe and even fatal a form as to suggest the older epidemic in miniature. It was epidemic in France in 1906. The disease is allied to the influenza which broke out among the French troops in Picardy in 1917 and thence spread over the world. in Picardy in 1917 and thence spread over which broke out among the French troops