---- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Send h-costume mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > >There is substantial mention of a "sweating sickness" that killed > >thousands during Henry VIII's time. What was that? No mention of > >buboes like for plague or marks like smallpox. Did this really > >happen or was it just part of their story? It was very contagious > >and people were told to burn all clothing & bedding. I believe > >consumption is tuberculosis, right? Any other old disease names > >with modern equivalents I should know? > > > >I know the costumes were discussed when the show first came > >out What I found most jarring was anything from the neck up. The > >hairstyles were extremely modern. Long hair was down & exposed. > >Crowns & headgear, at least on the women, looked fantasy or Las Vegas. > > > >Julie in Ramona > > The "sweating sickness" is one of those medical mysteries that we may > never be able to answer. It was evidently a real sickness (there are > many references in contemporary letters and documents), but what > caused it is unknown. It was evidently not plague or smallpox, both > of which have readily recognizable symptoms; it was not tuberculosis, > which does not kill in a few hours or days. From the descriptions, > it sounds, to me, like it could have been a particularly virulent > form of influenza or even malaria. > > Joan Jurancich > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Interesting. My daughter mentioned malaria but I told her it couldn't be that because it's tropical. Cholera was mentioned as well. I was thinking along the lines of the horrible influenza in the U.S. in 19...teens that killed so many. Wasn't it called the Spanish Influenza?
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