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MeSH Heading: Sweating Sickness
Tree Number(s): C23.888.119.344.672
Unique ID: D018614
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018614
Annotation: a hist epidemic dis
Scope Note: 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.
Entry Term(s): English Sweating Sickness; Sudor Anglicus
Public MeSH Note: 95
History Note: 95
Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/04/19
Revision Date: 1999/11/03

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Sweating Sickness MeSH Descriptor Data 2023