The Plague was a disease best known as the Black Death and it came from fleas on the Black Rats. It began in the 1300s in Asia and spread all over the Middle East, Europe and North African countries such as Morocco and Nigeria, There where still accounts of it in the 18 century. People through out that era thought that it was carried by air, so doctors went out in masks and perfume into the air. Most people were not clean either.
The symptoms where coughing, sneezing, coughing up blood, black swelling under the arm pits, going pale and feeling weak. If someone just had hay fever or a cold they were immediately sent to Plague camps where they would get the Plague! During the 13 and 14 centuries the English population was almost halved! Any comments or info?
The symptoms where coughing, sneezing, coughing up blood, black swelling under the arm pits, going pale and feeling weak. If someone just had hay fever or a cold they were immediately sent to Plague camps where they would get the Plague! During the 13 and 14 centuries the English population was almost halved! Any comments or info?
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woWWW! what a cool picture :-)
heres something I found from http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/plague/11.shtml
The pope sent to Paris to obtain the opinions of the medical faculty there in 1348. They studied the problem for a time and returned a report. The good professors opined that the disaster was caused by a particularly unfortunate conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the sign of Aquarius that had occurred in 1345. This conjunction cause hot, moist conditions, which cause the earth to exhale poisonous vapors.
The report went on to recommend steps to keep safe from the disease. This, in part, was their prescription:
No poultry should be eaten, no waterfowl, no pig, no old beef, altogether no fat meat. . . . It is injurious to sleep during the daytime. . . . Fish should not be eaten, too much exercise may be injurious . . . and nothing should be cooked in rainwater. Olive oil with food is deadly. . . . Bathing is dangerous. . . .
Hardcase! Especially the bathing bit! I also read in a novel once that lancing the boil and draining the poisonous puss increased your chances of surviving by quite a bit, but such practice was considered un-Christian and not allowed! Leeches and bleeding were however! (both of which only made things worse).
Of course you know the rhyme:
Ring a ring a roses (-shape of plague boil things)
A pocket full of poses (-aromatic stuff thought to ward off disease because they thought it was transmitted by smell)
A-tish-you, a-tish-you (-people get sick)
We all fall down (-everyone dies!)
Pretty gruesome aye?!
Anyhow, don't ya think its about time you posted something new and perhaps not so depressing!! C u l8r
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