Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Sweatyng Sicknesse

  • John Caius, the polymath who described the sweating sickness

    Philip LiebsonChicago, Illinois, United States Imagine being a physician in a rural community in England in the mid-sixteenth century, always concerned with the reappearance of the Black Death. Late one summer you are faced with a new strange illness. It begins with cold shivers, headaches, and severe diffuse pains leading to exhaustion, and within a…