The Sweating Sickness
In the Medieval Times most people have heard of The Black Death, meanwhile medieval English went through an epidemic called the sweating sickness. The sweating sickness took thousands of lives. Even though the sweating sickness took more lives than the Black Death, it grew infamous because its victims who got it died within 24 hours by sweating to death. Scientists say there is antibiotics to cure the illness but don’t know how a person becomes about with it, modern researchers have come to a conclusion and proposed that there are two possible pathogens that could have caused it, in which kill people today. The illness started with fever, extreme aches in the neck, shoulders, and extremities, abdominal pain with vomiting. …show more content…
Written in the Holinshed’s Chronicles in 1557, written by men’s grandfathers who were involved and saw the Black Death wrote that the Sweating Sickness was “sharp and deadly”. The summers of 1485, 1508, 1517, 1528, and 1551 the outbreak occurred mostly containing England, then the disease just vanished. Researchers at Queen Astrid Military Hospital have been comparing the medieval reports to current epidemiology. Dr. Paul Heyman (researcher) says they are still looking for clues, he and his colleagues are linking the first outbreak to Henry Tudor’s coup against Richard III in 1485. First report of illness was at the Battle of Bosworth. The illness followed Henry VII’s men back to london which killed 15,000 people in just 6 weeks. Heyman and his colleagues are coming to conclusion that the disease may not have originated there. Unknowingly the mercenaries Henry Tudor commissioned from France may have transported the disease to England after possibly acquiring it during their campaign against the Ottoman Empire in 1480 at Rhodes. After 2,000 deaths in London in 1528 the disease traveled through via ship to Hamburg, Germany where there was over 1,000 deaths occurred in a month. 3,000 deaths occurred in Danzig and more in
In the Medieval Times most people have heard of The Black Death, meanwhile medieval English went through an epidemic called the sweating sickness. The sweating sickness took thousands of lives. Even though the sweating sickness took more lives than the Black Death, it grew infamous because its victims who got it died within 24 hours by sweating to death. Scientists say there is antibiotics to cure the illness but don’t know how a person becomes about with it, modern researchers have come to a conclusion and proposed that there are two possible pathogens that could have caused it, in which kill people today. The illness started with fever, extreme aches in the neck, shoulders, and extremities, abdominal pain with vomiting. …show more content…
Written in the Holinshed’s Chronicles in 1557, written by men’s grandfathers who were involved and saw the Black Death wrote that the Sweating Sickness was “sharp and deadly”. The summers of 1485, 1508, 1517, 1528, and 1551 the outbreak occurred mostly containing England, then the disease just vanished. Researchers at Queen Astrid Military Hospital have been comparing the medieval reports to current epidemiology. Dr. Paul Heyman (researcher) says they are still looking for clues, he and his colleagues are linking the first outbreak to Henry Tudor’s coup against Richard III in 1485. First report of illness was at the Battle of Bosworth. The illness followed Henry VII’s men back to london which killed 15,000 people in just 6 weeks. Heyman and his colleagues are coming to conclusion that the disease may not have originated there. Unknowingly the mercenaries Henry Tudor commissioned from France may have transported the disease to England after possibly acquiring it during their campaign against the Ottoman Empire in 1480 at Rhodes. After 2,000 deaths in London in 1528 the disease traveled through via ship to Hamburg, Germany where there was over 1,000 deaths occurred in a month. 3,000 deaths occurred in Danzig and more in