[SunkenCiv]

• The 'Sweating Disease' That Swept Across England 500 Years Ago is Still a Medical Mystery: It came in five waves, and haunted Tudor England for 70 years before disappearing | Joel Shurkin | November 25, 2019
• The Dreaded Sweat: the Other Medieval Epidemic: While most people have heard of the Black Death, medieval Europe was also afflicted by a less deadly but more perplexing epidemic: the sweating sickness | Jared Bernard | 15 May 2014
• The Sweating Sickness Returns: Physicians think the medieval sweating sickness might have been hantavirus pulmonary syndrome | Discover Staff | May 31, 1997

[gr8eman]

Rat poop?

[Red Badger]

It haunted Tudor England because everybody was sweating about who was gonna lose their head or be burned at the stake next!......................

[Deo volente]

The mysterious sweating sickness killed the wife and children of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s right-hand man. The great English actor Mark Rylance portrayed Cromwell in the PBS series “Wolf Hall”, based on the book.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-mysterious-sweating-sickness-in-hilary-mantels-wolf-hall-trilogy-and-the-private-country-of-illness