10 Diseases That Existed Before Modern Medicine Could Name Them

10 Diseases That Existed Before Modern Medicine Could Name Them The Sweating Sickness. In the summer of fourteen eighty-five, a disease arrived in England that no physician had ever seen and no language had a name for. It came with Henry Tudor's army from France, moved into London within days of the Battle of Bosworth Field, and killed a healthy man between breakfast and dinner. Not between seasons. Not between weeks. Between meals. Physicians stood over the bodies with no framework, no precedent, and no explanation.