Sweating Sickness [potivá horečka]

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Terms

anglická potivá nemoc
potivá nemoc
sudor anglicus

 

English Sweating Sickness
Sudor Anglicus

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Definition

A clinical condition characterized by fever and profuse sweating and associated with high mortality. It occurred in epidemic form five times in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in England, first in 1485 and last in 1551, specially during the summer and early autumn, attacking the relatively affluent adult male population. The etiology was unknown.

Annotation
a hist epidemic dis
historická epidemická choroba
DUI
D018614 MeSH Browser
CUI
M0027899
History note
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Public note
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