The Sweating Plague Was Deadlier Than It Sounds
From 1485 through the latter part of the 16th century, a new plague - English "sweating sickness" - ravaged England and Europe, killing thousands of people. The fearsome disease had many names including, "Sudor Anglicus," "English Sweat," "the Sweat," "the Swat," "the New Acquaintance," and “Stoupe! Knave and know thy master." The dreaded sweat, which took its victims in fewer than 24 hours, was more or less localized in England, but it made its way to the European Continent in 1528.
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I think it's possible that it was fungal contamination involving wine. It would explain the absence of children and the poor getting ill and perhaps the timing especially if it coincided with warmer climate every 10 to 15 years as mentioned in the video. Also the symptoms involving the sense of foreboding could be brought on by a fungus mixed with alcohol. Fungi can also do rapid kidney damage which plays into all of the symptoms.
We swim in our own sweats every summer - Filipinos
I think you should have said “he changed his residence about as often as he changed his wives” 🥴
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Sometimes it still blows my mind how anyone managed to get through the medieval times
Weird History: Teaching us all not to sweat the small stuff.
Prince Andrew has the cure
Who else tried to wipe those weird smudges on the right of the video.
"No documented cases in children"..........kills famous 13 year old noble.
Prince Andrew won’t catch it eh!!!
looks at symptoms
[Sweats nervously]
Doctors also recommended that they didn’t drink at all, which given the body would be severely dehydrated would have definitely contributed to the likelihood of death!
gluttony + no exercise + extraordinary levels of alcohol = yeah I could understand why the upper class didn't like to sweat but c'mon it's not gonna ki- oh wait
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One correction: Charles Brandon was married to Henry’s sister Mary; not his daughter Mary.
The upper classes hadn't got that hypothetical earlier disease, for whatever reason - so when the sweat came along, they had no immunity to it and were infected in much greater numbers.
"Today, we're going to take a look at the plague that made you sweat to death"
Your voice is perfect for narrating these dark, bleak times in history.
I'd be interested to learn what exactly caused the deaths of the Sweating Sickness. Was it dehydration? Extreme temperature? Or something else. Pretty scary that they thought it was evil from the ground. Yikes.