# The Sweating Sickness in England

Author: Webb, Francis Cornelius, 1826-1873

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63376

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## Summary

There are few subjects which exhibit more points of interest to the epidemiologist and medical historian, than that series of epidemics, of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, which went by the name of English Sweating Sicknesses. We are chiefly indebted to a learned German professor, Dr. Hecker, and to his translator Dr. Babington, for the acquaintance we in the present day have with these events; and we would here observe that, in whatever light we may view Professor Hecker’s deductions and theories, there can be but one opinion as to his faithfulness and diligence as a medical historian. As his work, however, is published by a society, and is therefore of somewhat limited circulatio...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sweating-sickness-in-england-63376/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sweating-sickness-in-england-63376/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sweating-sickness-in-england-63376/chapters/3/index.md)