Found 2 items, similar to Sweating sickness.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sweating sickness sweating sickness n 1: a disease of cattle (especially calves) 2: epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality [syn: miliary fever]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sweating sickness Sweating \Sweat"ing\, a. & n. from Sweat, v. [1913 Webster] Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper. Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices. Sweating sickness (Med.), a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours. [1913 Webster]