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sweating sickness
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.
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Except she dies, of sweating sickness, along with her sister and her mother.
They cover sweating sickness, courtly betrayal, censorship, the secret life of Thomas Wyatt, pragmatic brother-and-sister incest, totalitarianism.
Sweating sickness, also called English sweat or English sweating sickness, a disease of unknown cause that appeared in England as an epidemic on five occasions in 1485, 1508, 1517, 1528, and 1551.
In August a plague known as the sweating sickness swept the country and was especially severe in Cambridge.
Diseases in epidemic proportions included leprosy, bubonic plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, scabies, erysipelas, anthrax, trachoma, sweating sickness, and dancing mania (see infection).
It is improbable that sweating sickness should appear as a well-defined disease and then vanish altogether, although such disappearances, while rare, are not unknown.
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Sweating, weeping, sickness, sudden bowel evacuation: all of it has humiliated him, left him prostrate, sent him to a series of therapists, and had him ingest any number of pills.
Sometime during the night, the sickness sweated out of us and by the morning, we were good to go again and onto the next adventure.
The descriptions of physical symptoms such as sickness, diarrhoea, tiredness, sweating, breathlessness and pain were vivid, extensive and it is clear that they had a powerful impact on individuals.
Clinical manifestations of Jamaican vomiting sickness include headache, thirst, sweating, vomiting, lethargy, seizures, coma, and death over a span of hours to days.
"Describe," he instructs himself, "what sneezing is, what yawning is, the falling sickness, spasm, paralysis, shivering with cold, sweating, fatigue, hunger, sleep, thirst, lust".
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