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doyleboy | 16:54 Mon 17th Oct 2005 | History
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what was the name of the disease commonly known as the "sweating disease" in the tudor times?

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It most probably was 'Hyperhidrosis', (Sweating Disease), but there are different strains of it.

I agree that hyperhidrosis is a sweating disease

and that any sweating disease in the Tudor times is necessarily conjectural,

but I tip malaria or influenza

Influenza - Huxham 1568

but on reflection - it is the ague - or sweating disease

 

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erm malaria I mean
None of the diseases Peter has named are called 'Sweating Disease', but given the historical time, on reflection, I think he is probably right, more so with the Ague and Malaria, both of which make you sweat profusely.

It was called 'sweating sickness' and has been likened to an unrelated medical condition hyperhidrosis as mentioned above, and relapsing fever which was spread by ticks and lice.

See sweaty

 

see the English Sweating Sickeness, 1485-1551

content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/336/8/580

I think, what I have read about the sweating sickness it sound like the early signs of meningitis with feeling sick, fevered and stiff joints when it appears in a later date some people start showing signs of a rash.

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