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A clinical condition characterized by fever and profuse sweating and associated with high mortality. It occurred in epidemic form five times in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in England, first in 1485 and last in 1551, specially during the summer and early autumn, attacking the relatively affluent adult male population. The etiology was unknown.

Miliary fever (1).

A febrile epidemic disease of an extremely fatal nature, which ravaged Europe, and especially England, in the 15th and 16th centuries, and which was characterized by profuse sweating.

A febrile epidemic disease, very fatal, which prevailed in Europe the 15th and 16th centuries, characterised by prose sweating.

See miliary fever, under fever.