单词 | english sweat |
释义 | > as lemmasEnglish sweat English sweat n. now historical = sweating-sickness n.The aetiology of this disease is unknown. ΚΠ 1552 J. Caius Bk. against Sweatyng Sicknesse f. 9v This disease..was called here, the Sweating sickenesse: and because it firste beganne in Englande, it was named in other countries the englishe sweat. 1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 74 It was formerly the epidemical Fever, commonly called the English Sweat. 1768 Hist. City & County Norwich 216 The english sweat..broke out at Shrewsbury, and spreading by degrees all over the kingdom, ended its progress in the north. 1859 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. Mar. 316 In the time of Henry VIII., the sweating sickness was so generally prevalent in England as to be called the English Sweat. 1963 W. L. Langer in B. Mazlish Psycholanal. & Hist. ii. 96 Frequent severe outbreaks of bubonic plague were reinforced by attacks of typhus fever,..to say nothing of the English Sweat (probably influenza). < as lemmas |
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