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May 24, 2022 · The English Sweat. Also known as "sweating sickness" and simply "the sweats", the so-called "English Sweat" which claimed Arthur, Price of Wales's life has remained a medical mystery for centuries.
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Nov 25, 2019 · Did the long-forgotten disease kill Prince Arthur? Scientists and historians are left with few clues. “Arthur may have died of sweating sickness as it appears that Catherine was also unwell at the same time, but I haven't found definitive proof of it,“ said novelist and historian Claire Ridgway, who has written about the drama.
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Nov 22, 2019 · Did the long-forgotten disease kill Prince Arthur? Scientists and historians are left with few clues. “Arthur may have died of sweating sickness as it appears that Catherine was also unwell at the same time, but I haven't found definitive proof of it,“ said novelist and historian Claire Ridgway, who has written about the drama.
Feb 25, 2021 · Arthur’s premature death on 2 April 1502 probably resulted from a regional outbreak of sweating sickness, and there is a possibility that he succumbed where others survived because of an existing health issue. Reports of his role in the Maundy Thursday service on 24 March 1502, however, give no indication of debility or weakness.
Aug 6, 2013 · Arthur’s parents did not attend the funeral and Catherine was still too ill to attend. There has been speculation on what exactly caused Arthur’s death. Sweating sickness was used to describe anything causing a high fever from pneumonia to tuberculosis. One of the symptoms of tuberculosis is night sweats.
Apr 2, 2018 · Since it took Arthur almost a week to succumb, it was either an oddly long time for the sweating sickness to progress or it wasn’t sweating sickness at all. While either Influenza and/or pneumonia could have certainly killed Arthur in a week’s time, Tudor physicians would have known and named either condition as the cause of death.
I just did some thorough reading-up in medical journals on "the sweating sickness" and was fascinated by what I found. But first, in regard to Arthur, early modern physicians, though crudely limited in their understanding of the origins and treatments of diseases, were nonetheless often remarkably sophisticated in differentiating one illness ...
