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Definition of Sweating sickness

1. Noun. A disease of cattle (especially calves).

2. Noun. Epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality.

Definition of Sweating sickness

1. Noun. An unidentified, highly virulent disease with aches and sweating, the cause of a series of epidemics in England and Europe between 1485 and 1551. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweating Sickness

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Literary usage of Sweating sickness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"The petechial fever in Italy in 1505 was a form of the sweating sickness. ... The moral effect of the sweating sickness, similar to that ..."

2. The History of England: From the Earliest Period to 1839 by Thomas Keightley (1843)
"The coronation would have taken place immediately but for the prevalence of a disease, named, from its nature, the sweating sickness. It was a rapid fever, ..."

3. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1878)
"Tht sweating sickness. ... the strange and peculiar plague of The sweating the English nation. The sweating sickness ..."

4. The Epidemics of the Middle Ages by Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker, Benjamin Guy Babington (1859)
"sweating sickness. All this took place in April and May of the ever memorable ... when the sweating sickness once more broke out quite unexpectedly in July, ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"... to war than to the management of political affairs. His portrait, by Holbein, belongs to the Earl of Portsmouth. Wallop died of the sweating sickness at ..."

6. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"... coronation—Sweating- sickness—' A parliament—Entail of the crown—King's marriage —*An insurrection—Discontents of the people—Lambert Simnel—Revolt of ..."

7. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1901)
"(8) MILIARY FEVER—sweating sickness. The disease is characterized by fever, profuse sweats, and an eruption of miliary vesicles. It prevailed and was very ..."

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