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A clinical condition characterized by fever and profuse sweating and associated with high mortality. It occurred in epidemic form five times in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in England, first in 1485 and last in 1551, specially during the summer and early autumn, attacking the relatively affluent adult male population. The etiology was unknown.
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- English Sweating Sickness
- Sudor Anglicus
- Sickness, Sweating
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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a hist epidemic dis
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Sweating Sickness. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018614. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018614
- Sweating Sickness. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness
- Sweating Sickness. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q920766