10 Medical Misfortunes that Plagued the Tudor Royal Family
The powerful royal family was not immune to the many illnesses of the 16th century.
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The powerful royal family was not immune to the many illnesses of the 16th century.
Sweating sickness, a disease of unknown cause that appeared in England as an epidemic on five occasions—in 1485, 1508, 1517, 1528, and 1551. It was confined to England, except in 1528–29, when it spread to the European continent, appearing in Hamburg and passing northward to Scandinavia and
Sweating sicknesses, New World epidemics, and other strange clusters of illness with no clear cause.