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sweating sickness: References & Edit History

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Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Were the English Sweating Sickness and the Picardy Sweat Caused by Hantaviruses? Jan 16, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - The English Sweating Sickness, 1485-1551: A Viral Pulmonary Disease? Aug 16, 2024
Add new Web site: History Today - English Sweat: The other medieval epidemic. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - The English Sweating Sickness: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Jan 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - What was Sweating Sickness, the Mysterious Tudor Plague of Wolf Hall? Aug 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Hektoen International - The sweating sickness in Tudor England: a plague of the Renaissance. Jul 07, 2023
Add new Web site: History Today - The Dreaded Sweat: the Other Medieval Epidemic. May 25, 2023
Cross-references added. Jun 17, 2022
Add new Web site: Academia - The English Sweating Sickness: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Apr 14, 2016
Add new Web site: MSD Manual - Consumer Version - Sweating Disorders. Oct 12, 2015
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Were the English Sweating Sickness and the Picardy Sweat Caused by Hantaviruses? Oct 12, 2015
Changed the number of epidemics from six to five and added mention of hantavirus infection as a suspected cause. Jun 16, 2015
Add new Web site: Luminarium - Sweating-Sickness. Jan 10, 2014
Add new Web site: Patient - Hyperhidrosis. Feb 17, 2011
Added a photo of British physician John Caius. Aug 27, 2009
Added new Web site: Buzzle.com - Sweating Sickness. Feb 12, 2009
Added new Web site: TudorPlace - The Sweating Sickness. Feb 12, 2009
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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