Julie wrote: >Interesting. My daughter mentioned malaria but I told her it couldn't be that >because it's tropical. Cholera was >mentioned as well. I was thinking along >the lines of the horrible influenza in the U.S. in 19...teens that killed so >>many. Wasn't it called the Spanish Influenza?
Not just in the US - my father's uncle, a Derbyshire vicar, died of it in 1918 after taking many other victims' funerals, and it was widespread on the European continent. I think malaria (ague) and cholera were recognised diseases in the 16th century, so the sweating sickness must have been something different. Kate Bunting Cataloguing & Data Quality Librarian University of Derby _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
