Known for killing people within a day of symptoms starting, the true origins of the "sweats" that plagued the 1500s remain unknown to this day. Reading time 3 minutes Death and illness have never been ...

A portrait of Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, by German painter Hans Holbein the Younger. The 14-year-old Brandon and his brother Henry died from the sweating sickness within an hour of each ...

In the 15th century a mysterious and merciless disease where patient’s sweated to death ravaged Europe leaving a King terrifed. It seemed to come from out of nowhere and yet death came mercilessly ...