Sweating Sickness: Deadly Tudor Plague | After Dark
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal
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It's a medical-history-mystery today as we explore the Sweating Sickness. Things get clammy as Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling ask what was this deadly disease? What happened when Anne Boleyn got it? And why were sufferers sewn into their bedsheets?
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