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Caius, John

▪ British physician
Caius also spelled  Kees, Keys, Kay, or Kaye  
born Oct. 6, 1510, Norwich, Norfolk, Eng.
died July 29, 1573, London

      prominent Humanist and physician whose classic account of the English sweating sickness is considered one of the earliest histories of an epidemic.

      After his student days at Cambridge, Caius visited Italy (1539), studying under Montanus and Andreas Vesalius at Padua. Upon returning to London he practiced medicine and served as president of the Royal College of Physicians for several years. In 1557 he expanded his old college (Gonville Hall), named it Gonville and Caius College, endowed it generously, and in 1559 accepted its mastership.

      Caius' medical writings are of particular interest, especially his account of the often fatal sweating sickness, which was epidemic in England six times between 1485 and 1578. A Boke or Counseill against the Disease commonly called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse (1552) is the main source of knowledge of this disease, which modern investigators think may have been a form of influenza. Caius attributed the cause of the illness to dirt and filth.

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  • Sweating sickness — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD9 = ICD9|078.2 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D018614 Sweating sickness, also known as the English sweate ( la. sudor anglicus), was a… …   Wikipedia

  • sweating sickness — a febrile epidemic disease that appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries: characterized by profuse sweating and frequently fatal in a few hours. [1495 1505] * * * ▪ disease also called  English sweat        a disease of unknown cause that appeared …   Universalium

  • Sweating sickness — Sweating Sweat ing, a. & n. from {Sweat}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sweating bath}, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. {Sweating house}, a house for sweating persons in sickness. {Sweating iron}, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • sweating sickness — n an epidemic febrile disease esp. of young cows that occurs chiefly in Africa, is characterized by profuse sweating and early high mortality, and is caused by a toxin produced and transmitted by a tick of the genus Hyalomma (H. truncatum) * * *… …   Medical dictionary

  • sweating sickness — n. an acute, infectious, rapidly fatal disease, epidemic in Europe in the 15th and 16th cent., characterized by high fever and profuse sweating …   English World dictionary

  • sweating sickness — noun a fever with intense sweating, epidemic in England in the 15th–16th centuries …   English new terms dictionary

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