| Definition of 'sweating sickness' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) sweating sickness
a disease of cattle (especially calves)
2. (noun) sweating sickness, miliary fever
epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
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| Definitions of 'sweating sickness' |
The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. sweating sickness
an epidemic of extraordinary malignity which swept over Europe, and especially England, in the 15th and 16th centuries, attacking with equal virulence all classes and all ages, and carrying off enormous numbers of people; was characterised by a sharp sudden seizure, high fever, followed by a foetid perspiration; first appeared in England in 1485, and for the last time in 1551.
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| Definition of 'sweating sickness' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. sweating sickness
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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