The Sweating Sickness
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The Sweating Sickness is headed The boke of Jhon Caius against the sweatyng sicknes. The writer says one book was finished "in Englishe, onely for Englishe mẽ not lerned," and another "in latine for men of lerninge more at large." The opening argues that anyone worthy to live ought always to have his whole mind and intent given to profit others.
A passage on diet names Socrates as a wise man who by this sort of diet escaped a sore pestilence in Athenes. On the sweat, the text says that if it has come sufficiently, you shall know it by the lightness and cheerfulness of the body. The text says that a person who by unruliness breaks the sweat and does not sweat sufficiently is in danger of death by the venom that remains.
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- John Caius
- Reading time
- About 55 minutes
- Pages
- 28
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
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