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Friday, August 28, 2020

How the Black Death spread | Punishment from god

The Black Death is thought to have originated in Asia, but then travelled to Europe in 1347. 

Rats have long been blamed for spreading the Black Death around Europe in the 14th century. Specifically, historians have speculated that the fleas on rats are responsible for the estimated 25 million plague deaths between 1347 and 1351. Black Death symptoms and signs include painful and enlarged or swollen lymph nodes (an enlarged lymph node due to plague is called a bubo), chills, headache, fever, fatigue, weakness, abdominal pain and shock.


It's by far the worst death rate in history. Caused by several forms of plague, killing anywhere between 75 to 200 million people worldwide and perhaps one half of the population in England.


Black death symptoms are fever and chills, extreme weakness, abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting, bleeding from your mouth, nose or rectum, or under your skin, shock, blackening and death of tissue (gangrene) in your extremities, most commonly your fingers, toes and nose.

Everyone in the middle ages thought that the Plague is a punishment from god. Weird Plague Cures that were used in the middle ages are, bloodletting, sweating, treacle, bathe in urine, flagellant, Crushed Emeralds, covering yourself with human excrement, live in a sewer, The live chicken cure, Quarantine. The second most useful one was the live chicken cure, and the first one is Quarantine.

A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of the bubonic plague, in times of epidemics , these physician were specifically hired by towns where the plague had taken hold. Since the city where paying their salary. they treated everyone, wealthy or poor. Their principal task, besides taking care of people with the plague, was to compile public records of the deaths due to the plague. In certain European cities like Florence and Perugia, plague doctors were requested to do autopsies to help determine the cause of death and how the plague played a role.

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