Eleonora of Toledo and her sons died of malaria in 1560. There were regular outbreaks in the Mamerra (Tuscany). Cosimo I, the Duke of Florence, (her husband, the boy's father) worked on draining the swampy area for years.
Monica -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kate M Bunting Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] Re: Tudors and sweating sickness Julie wrote: >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? Not just in the US - my father's uncle, a Derbyshire vicar, died of it in 1918 after taking many other victims' funerals, and it was widespread on the European continent. I think malaria (ague) and cholera were recognised diseases in the 16th century, so the sweating sickness must have been something different. Kate Bunting Cataloguing & Data Quality Librarian University of Derby _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
