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The general belief is that the dreaded sweating sickness arrived in England along with Henry Tudor and his French army. Maybe it did. Certainly it became rife after Bosworth and he entered London. It was a fearsome disease, worse even than the Black Death, for you could be hale and hearty at breakfast and dead by supper. Sometimes within only two or three hours!

You can read much more about the sweating sickness at this link from which the above illustration is taken.

There is now a book on the subject, and the following small extract is from a review here. —

“The Sweating Sickness Epidemic: Henry VIII’s Great Fear by Stephen Porter tells the story. It traces its march across England, shows its impact on English life, and follows modern scientific studies of what caused the disease and why it disappeared.”

I confess I had no idea Henry VIII was so terrified of the disease.

Anyway, the book is published by Pen & Sword and is available at Amazon. And, I imagine, at many other outlets.