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Copy of The Black Death for Mr Brazeau
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When Did the Plague Arrive?
Welcome Aboard!
Jewish people had the biggest amount of people lost. Many christians murdered Jews because they thought that Jews were causing the disease. Buddhists accepted Jews when they ran to them because they are all for peace on Earth.
The Black Death was a devastating epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina. People gathered on the docks were met with a horrifying surprise: Most sailors aboard the ships were dead, and those still alive were gravely ill.
The Black Death epidemic had run its course by the early 1350s, but the plague reappeared every few generations for centuries. Modern sanitation and public-health practices have greatly mitigated the impact of the disease but have not eliminated it.
The Black Death
How Could One Get the Disease?
What Were the Symptoms?
- We know now that the disease travels from person to person pneumatically, or through the air.
- It could also travel through the bite of infected fleas and rats.
How Do You Cure the Disease?
Here are some Medieval remedies!
What did they tell others to do to PREVENT catching it?
- Perfumes - They would prevent the foul odor from reaching them.
- Carry posies in your pocket.
- Do not breathe the air (wear masks fumigated with herbs).
- Do not bathe.
- Bleeding the patients.
- Placing hot onions on the sores.
- Sitting in a room between two enormous fires (sweat it out).
- Sitting in the sewers.
Where Did the Plague Come From?
What Caused the Plague?
- Because they did not understand the biology of the disease, many people believed that the Black Death was a kind of divine punishment – retribution for sins against God such as greed, blasphemy, heresy, fornication and worldliness.
- By this logic, the only way to overcome the plague was to win God’s forgiveness. Some people believed that the way to do this was to purge their communities of heretics and other troublemakers.
One theory as to how the plague started was that it was:
...spread by fleas which lived on the black rat. The fleas sucked the rat’s blood which contained the plague germs. When the rat died the fleas jumped on to humans and passed on the deadly disease.
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