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Definition of Sweating sickness
1. Noun. A disease of cattle (especially calves).
Generic synonyms: Animal Disease
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
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