If you want to experience what it was like, head on down to the depths of The Blackpool Tower Dungeon.ĭisclaimer: The Blackpool Tower Dungeon takes no responsibility for dirty scoundrels attempting any of these cures. There you have it, a list of cures for that ‘orrible Black Death. Bet they poked a few eyes out with those! It’s a great classic, if that’s the kind of thing you are looking for. The Decameron is a whole lot more than a story set during the plague, but the plague is the frame used by this renaissance writer to explore meaning and love. Plague Doctors wore beaked masks which were believed to protect the wearer and provide distance between the doctor and the infected. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, Translated by J. 4 In 1743, 48,000 perished from plague in Messina in 17701 over 100,000 in Moscow and in the Balkans, Egypt, Asia Minor and Russia this Black-Death-type of contagious plague may have persisted as late as 1879. That’s right scoundrels…the only real effective way to prevent the spread of the plague was to social distance or quarantine for 40 days. Despite repeated claims in textbooks, the plague of Marseilles in 17201 was not this pandemics European finale. 3 Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas. One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, as many as 50 million people 2 perished, perhaps 50 of Europe’s 14th century population. If you had some extra pennies, lying around you could afford to gobble down some crushed emeralds…TASTY! Peasants like you who couldn’t afford it though had to resort to arsenic or mercury but that only killed them quicker than the plague. The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. Bet it wasn’t hard to find pigeons around these parts!ĭid you know that clean urine has healing properties? Infected patients would bathe in it or even drink it…DOWN IN ONE LASS! What a bloody mess!Īnother bad attempt to cure the plague was to kill and chop up a pigeon then rub the bloody parts all over buboes. Aberth, author of several books on the Black Death, including Plagues in World History, here explores the world of plague doctors through 240 plague treatises written by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim doctors dating from 1347 to 1450. It was thought that the leeches would draw out the bad blood that caused the disease and leave the good blood in the body. These physicians were hired by cities to treat infected patients regardless of income, especially the poor that could not afford to pay. Leeches anyone? The most popular attempt to cure the plague was bloodletting using leeches. A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of bubonic plague during epidemics mainly in the 16th and 17th centuries. Greetings peasant! That Black Death caused havoc in Lancashire in the 1300s and we’re here to tell you how they cured the infected.
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