[h-cost] Tudors Sweating Sickness (OT)

[Julie]

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 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
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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?

Julie
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RE: [h-cost] Tudors Sweating Sickness (OT)

[Sharon Collier]

Malaria occurs in areas other than tropical ones. In the book, Little House
on the Prairie, the whole family gets malaria and thankfully, a neighbor
drops by and is able to get them medicine. Oklahoma in the 1860-1870's.
Sharon C.

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 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?

Julie
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