Picardy sweat

The Picardsche welding fever is a historic infectious disease that occurred among others in France and Germany. She performed for the first time in 1718 in Vimeu in the northern French province of Picardy. They counted 194 epidemics. Last came the disease in 1874. In France the disease as Suette of Picard was called in England unconcerned as Picardy Sweat, in Germany as Picard'scher welding or welding Picard'sches fever. It has been repeatedly described in detail.

The disease has similarities with the English sweat, but differs in the symptoms and in mortality. Symptoms were a high fever and nosebleeds. Many victims died within two days already. The surviving sufferers got better after about seven days. Usually occurred skin blisters that later dried and verschuppten. Between the appearance of the first cases and recurrence in the village went about 15 to 20 days.