The disease was first recorded in 1485 among the soldiers of Henry Tudor, who won the Battle of Bosworth, arrived in London and ascended the throne under the name of King Henry VII.
At that time, the people who were in contact with his army began to die en masse. And in a month and a half, a strange disease wiped out about 15 thousand people.
Then the epidemic subsided. But it resumed with renewed vigor in 1507, 1517 and 1528. For the last time, even the king had to wind around the country to escape from an incomprehensible infection.
The wave spread to other European countries and only by 1551 was there a lull.
Subsequently, doctors and researchers racked their brains – what was it? Not plague, not cholera, not smallpox. Mortality from a strange sore reached 50%, and the process proceeded very quickly: a person who was ill in the morning could already die by the evening. The first days were critical in the case of the “sweating disease”: you survived, so you will live.
What is strange, the infection did not “choose” the old, the sick and the poor, but, on the contrary, the young, wealthy, strong, that is, people who ate normally, took care of their health, lived in good conditions.
The disease began with a fever, the person sweated profusely, then there were pains in the abdomen, neck, lower back. After that, nausea and vomiting were added, and sweating went even more actively. Streams literally poured from people, and the sweat had a specific, very unpleasant odor....<<<Read More>>>...
