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单词 sweating sickness
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sweating sickness

noun
Any of various fevers with intense sweating, epidemic in England in the 15th-16th centuries.They lived at Ludlow Castle, but had little time together, for poor Arthur died only a few months later, perhaps of tuberculosis or the fever called the sweating sickness....
  • His two sons died of the sweating sickness in 1551, when the dukedom became extinct.
  • Linking contagion with the poor has been common since at least the early modern period, when they were blamed for plague, typhus, sweating sickness, and syphilis.
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