Skip to main content
Medical History logoLink to Medical History
. 1998 Jan;42(1):96–98. doi: 10.1017/s0025727300063365

The English sweating sickness, 1485-1551: a viral pulmonary disease?

M Taviner 1, G Thwaites 1, V Gant 1
PMCID: PMC1043971  PMID: 9536626

Full text

PDF
96

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. Duchin J. S., Koster F. T., Peters C. J., Simpson G. L., Tempest B., Zaki S. R., Ksiazek T. G., Rollin P. E., Nichol S., Umland E. T. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome: a clinical description of 17 patients with a newly recognized disease. The Hantavirus Study Group. N Engl J Med. 1994 Apr 7;330(14):949–955. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199404073301401. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. Dyer A. The English sweating sickness of 1551: an epidemic anatomized. Med Hist. 1997 Jul;41(3):362–384. doi: 10.1017/s0025727300062724. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. Gottfried R. S. Population, plague, and the sweating sickness: demographic movements in late fifteenth-century England. J Br Stud. 1977 Fall;17:12–37. doi: 10.1086/385709. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. Levy H., Simpson S. Q. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1994 Jun;149(6):1710–1713. doi: 10.1164/ajrccm.149.6.8004332. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. Thwaites G., Taviner M., Gant V. The English sweating sickness, 1485 to 1551. N Engl J Med. 1997 Feb 20;336(8):580–582. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199702203360812. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. Wells R. M., Sosa Estani S., Yadon Z. E., Enria D., Padula P., Pini N., Mills J. N., Peters C. J., Segura E. L. An unusual hantavirus outbreak in southern Argentina: person-to-person transmission? Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Study Group for Patagonia. Emerg Infect Dis. 1997 Apr-Jun;3(2):171–174. doi: 10.3201/eid0302.970210. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  7. Wylie J. A., Collier L. H. The English Sweating sickness (sudor Anglicus): a reappraisal. J Hist Med Allied Sci. 1981 Oct;36(4):425–445. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/xxxvi.4.425. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from Medical History are provided here courtesy of Cambridge University Press

RESOURCES