…The plague of the Middle Ages gradually died out, but other powerful infectious diseases took its place. The English sweating fever, a strange disease that struck only England in the 15th and 16th centuries, typhus, which was prevalent especially during wars and in prisons during peacetime from the 16th century onwards, and syphilis, brought by Columbus and his crew on their return from the voyage of discovery of America in 1493, quickly engulfed Europe. Cholera, an endemic disease in the Bengal region of India, caused six major worldwide epidemics in the 19th century. … *Some of the terminology that refers to the "English Sweating Fever" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…中世以来のペストはしだいに終息したが,これに代わる強力な伝染病がつぎつぎと襲った。15~16世紀にイギリスだけを襲った奇病,イギリス発汗熱,また16世紀以降とくに戦争の折,および平時では監獄でしばしば流行した発疹チフス,それに1493年アメリカ発見の航海から帰ったコロンブスの一行によってもちこまれた梅毒も,たちまちヨーロッパをまきこんだ。インドのベンガル地域の地方病コレラが,19世紀には6回にわたって世界的な大流行をおこした。… ※「イギリス発汗熱」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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