[261] Dalin, D. III. p. 221. Engelske Svetten. In Tegel’s History of king Gustavus I. Part I. p. 267, general notices only are to be found respecting the English Sweating Sickness in Sweden, without any exact date (autumn of 1529) or description of the disease, such as are met with without number in the German Chronicles. Sven Hedin clearly estimates the mortality in the epidemic sweating fever too highly, when he compares it, p. 27, with the depopulation caused by the Black Death. He gives (p. 47) a striking passage on the Sweating Sickness from Linneus’s pathological prælections. The great naturalist has, however, allowed free scope to his imagination, and, like all the physicians of modern times who have delivered their sentiments on the English Sweating Sickness, knows far too little of the facts to be able to form a right judgment on the subject. (Supplement till Handboken för Praktiska Läkare-vetenskapen, rörande epidemiska och smittosamma sjukdomar i allmänhet, och särdeles de Pestilentialiska. 1 sta St. Stockholm, 1805. 8vo.)
[262] From Reimar Kock’s MS. Chronicle of Lübeck, and Forest, loc. cit. Compare Gruner’s Itinerarium, which is prepared throughout with laudable and even tedious diligence, but which met with so little acknowledgment in the Brunonian age, that it has already become a rare work.
[263] “According to which it was given out by some, that a sweat must be kept up for twenty-four hours in succession, and in the mean time, that no air should be admitted to the patient. This treatment sent many to their graves.”—Erfurt Chronicle.
[264] Erfurt Chronicle, and in the same strain Spangenberg, M. Chr. fol. 402. b. Pomarius, p. 617. and Schmidt, p. 305. Gemma writes of the Netherlands, L. I. c. 8. p. 189, having received his account from his father, who was himself the subject of the Sweating Sickness: “Consuti (sewn up) et violenter operti clamitabant misere, obtestabantur Deum atque hominum fidem, sese dimitterent, se suffocari iniectis molibus, sese vitam in summis angustiis exhalare, sed assistentes has querelas ex rabie proficisci, medicorum opinione persuasi, urgebant continue usque ad 24 horas,” etc.
[265] Schmidt, loc. cit.
[266] ——“Animos omnium terrore perculit adeo ut multis metus et imaginatio morbum conciliarit.” Erasm. Epist. L. XXVI. ep. 56. c. 1476. a. Spangenberg, loc. cit.
[267] “Many an one sweats for fear and thinks he has the English sweat, and when he afterwards hath slept it off, acknowledges that it was all nonsense.” Bayer v. Elbogen, cap. 8.
[268] The author could adduce some extraordinary instances of this kind which have occurred in his own practice.
[269] It was a greengrocer in Paris. Berliner Vossische Zeitung, Sept. 2, 1833.
[270] Carlstadt, Nic. Storch, Marcus Thomii, Marus Stubner, Marlin Cellarius and Thomas Münzer.