Sweating Sickness

Sweating sickness was a virulent disease which firstly struck England at the end of 15th and beginning of 16th century in series. The symptoms showed suddenly and dramatically and very often ended in few hours with death. The most mysterious thing about this disease is that the cause of it is still unknown.

The first time sweating sickness appeared for the times of Henry VII. One of the first evidence goes back to August 22nd 1485, when it was spoken about it on Battle of Bosworth Field. 6 days after that it broke out in London, where it killed several thousands people in less than two months. The sweating sickness reached Ireland 7 years later in 1492 when the death of James Fleming was recorded. This sickness didn’t attack infants or children and anyone who made through the first 24 hours survived.

After 1492 sweating sickness disappeared for 15 years and in 1507 it emerged again on the island. But the epidemic wasn’t as fatal as the first time. The sickness emerged again in 1517 when in some towns killed half of the whole population.

The most fatal time it emerged was the 4th in 1528, when it first appeared in London in May and it soon reached other parts of England with the exception of north. This time the sickness didn’t stay on the island. Soon it emerged in Hamburg and killed more than a thousand people in weeks. By the December it reached Switzerland and then towards the north to Denmark and Scandinavian countries. As fast as the sickness appeared it has also disappeared usually in 2 weeks. By the end of 1528 there were no more signs of the epidemic except in Switzerland.

The cause of the sickness still remains a mystery.

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March 30, 2008 | Filed Under Health and Fitness 

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