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Sweating sickness   /swˈɛtɪŋ sˈɪknəs/   Listen
Sweating sickness

noun
1.
A disease of cattle (especially calves).
2.
Epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality.  Synonym: miliary fever.





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"Sweating sickness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Duke of Suffolk, died of the sweating sickness then prevalent in the University, on the 16th July, 1551, while a student of Cambridge. His brother, Lord Charles Brandon, died on the same day. Their removal to Buckden was too late to save them (Ath. Cant., i. 105, 541). Of them Ascham says, 'two noble Primeroses of Nobilitie, the yong Duke ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... that the presumption is always against the rhymester as compared with the less pretentious persons about him or her, busy with some useful calling,—too busy to be tagging rhymed commonplaces together. Just now there seems to be an epidemic of rhyming as bad as the dancing mania, or the sweating sickness. After reading a certain amount of manuscript verse one is disposed to anathematize the inventor of homophonous syllabification. [This phrase made a great laugh when it was read.] This, that is rhyming, must have been ...
— A Mortal Antipathy • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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