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sweating sickness

 
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a febrile epidemic disease that appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries: characterized by profuse sweating and frequently fatal in a few hours.
Origin:
1495–1505
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Main Entry: sweating sickness
Function: noun
: an epidemic febrile disease especially of young cows that occurs chiefly in Africa, is characterized by profuse sweatingand early high mortality, and is caused by a toxin produced and transmitted by a tick of the genus Hyalomma (H. truncatum)
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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sweating sickness

a disease of unknown cause that appeared in England as an epidemic on six occasions-in 1485, 1506, 1517, 1528, 1551, and 1578. It was confined to England, except in 1528-29, when it spread to the European continent, appearing in Hamburg and passing northward to Scandinavia and eastward to Lithuania, Poland, and Russia; the Netherlands also were involved, but the disease did not spread to France or Italy

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