Sweating sickness, also known as the sweats, English sweating sickness, English sweat or sudor anglicus in Latin, was a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental …

After one to three hours, violent, drenching sweat came on, accompanied by severe headache, delirium, and rapid pulse. Death might occur from 3 to 18 hours after the first onset of symptoms; if the patient …

Aug 22, 2025 · The Sweating Sickness, also known as English sweat or sudor anglicus, was a mysterious and highly fatal epidemic that emerged in England during the late 15th and early 16th …

Aug 24, 2017 · But it was fear of disease that drove him to move almost daily that summer. The king was terrified of sweating sickness, a deadly epidemic that is nearly forgotten today.

Aug 20, 2024 · Beginning in 1485, Tudor England was devastated by a mysterious and contagious disease called the sweating sickness, which killed thousands of people.

Oct 18, 2025 · In the first episode of BBC historical drama Wolf Hall, based on Hilary Mantel’s novel of the same name, Thomas Cromwell returns home to find his wife and two daughters have all died …

Aug 20, 2023 · The English Sweating sickness transcended borders, suddenly appearing in Hamburg and swiftly causing over a thousand deaths. It spread through eastern Europe, including Denmark, …

Mar 24, 2020 · What was the Sweating Sickness? And how did Henry VIII ‘self-isolate’? During the Tudor period, a disease known as Sweating Sickness killed tens of thousands of people in Britain. …

Jan 18, 2024 · In the late 15th century, England got hit with an epidemic straight out of a horror movie: a so-called “sweating sickness,” which appeared suddenly in August 1485, after Henry VII returned to …

Mar 28, 2008 · The sweating sickness, or sudor anglicus, is one of the great puzzles of historical epidemiology because no modern disease corresponds very well to its principal epidemiological and …