A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles Creighton

1589. New ed. 1596, p. 272.

[526] There is a single reference to a sweat on the Continent in 1551, which may really have been one of those epidemics of typhus (or influenza), with a sweating character, that were observed in 1557-8 and