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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Signs and Symptoms > Body Temperature Changes > Fever > Sweating Sickness

Preferred term

Sweating Sickness  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • English Sweating Sickness
  • Sudor Anglicus

Note

  • a hist epidemic dis

Scope note

  • 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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  • 95

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018614

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