1529 CORDUS, Euricius (1486 – 1535)

Ein Regiment: wie man sich vor der newen Plage der Englische Schwaisz genannt, bewaren, und so mann damit ergryffen wirt, darinn halten sall.

Euricius Cordus, father of Valerius, wrote an important account of sweating sickness. Another edition was published at Nuremberg, also in 1529. Reproduced in Gruner’s Scriptores, 1847 (No. 5524).

GMN 5520 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6588

1531 SCHYLLER, Joachim [SCHILLER] (1500 – )

De peste Brittanica commentariolus vere aureus.

Schyller’s book on sweating sickness deals with the German epidemic of 1528-30.

GMN 5521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6591

1552 CAIUS, John [Johannes Caius; born John Kays] (1510 – 1573)

A boke, or conseill against the disease commonly called the sweate, or sweatyng sicknesse.

First English book on sweating sickness, and the first devoted to a single disease to be published in England. Caius’s work appeared a year after the last epidemic visit of the disease. From it we learn that the disea…

GMN 5522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6594

1847 GRUNER, Christian Gottfried (1744 – 1815)

Scriptores de sudore anglico superstites. Colliget C. G. Gruner. Post mortem auctoris adomavit et edidit H. Haeser.

A collection of all the important earlier writings on sweating sickness.

GMN 5524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6614