a disorder which appeared in England about the year 1481, and was by foreigners called the English sweat. It returned again in 1485; then in 1506; afterwards in 1517. It appeared again in 1528, or 1529, at which time alone it spread itself to the Netherlands and Germany: a circumstance which shows the impropriety of calling it the English sweat, in Latin sudor Anglicanus; besides, Sennertus takes notice, that it spread as far as Denmark, Norway, and France. It raged again in 1548. And the last return of it in London was in 1551, when it was so violent as in one day to take off 120 of the inhabitants of Westminster. Some were feasted abroad, and cut off in the road, others at home. Some when awake, others when fast asleep. Some died in a moment, and others in one, two, three, four, or more hours after they began to sweat.