tudors

[doyleboy]

what was the name of the disease commonly known as the "sweating disease" in the tudor times?

[Chessman]

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

[Peter Pedant]

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

 

(no ref)

[Peter Pedant]

erm malaria I mean

[Chessman]

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.

[Octavius]

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

[Peter Pedant]

 

see the English Sweating Sickeness, 1485-1551

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

[arty7774]

Take a look at

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness

[scotchflower]

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.