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How the Survive the Black Death

How the Survive the Black Death. Gabrielle Bourgeois. What is the Black Death?.

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How the Survive the Black Death

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  1. How the Survive the Black Death Gabrielle Bourgeois

  2. What is the Black Death? The Black Death was a serious disease that terrorized Medieval Europe. It was found in three different way. The bubonic plague, as named for the painful buboes on the victims, the pneumonic plague, which could be spread simply by breathing, and the version of the plague, which was spread through the blood stream of the victim.

  3. What are the symptoms? The symptoms of the Black Death are a high fever, rapid pulse, headaches, an aching body and sudden weakness. They would also grow painful sores called buboes on their neck, armpits, legs or groins. After a day or two, large black or purple spots appeared on skin of those who had caught the disease.

  4. When did it occur? The Black Death occurred from 1347, when it first struck a European city, all the way until 1349 when it began to die down. And, all though it occurred many other times in Europe through out history, the only one discussed in this shall be the epidemic from 1347-1349.

  5. Where did it occur? The plague first struck the city of Caffa (Which is now a located in Ukraine) after an attack on it by the Mongols. After this, it spread to Messina, Italy aboard trade ships. Once in Italy, it spread all over Europe, leaving death, chaos and misery in its wake. England, along with Scandinavia and Russia, was one of the last countries to feel its wrath, since London only got affected in the September of 1348.

  6. Who was affected? In truth, everyone who was alive in Europe during that time was affected by this disease. They may not have caught it themselves, but there is no doubt they felt the terror of seeing the world around them thrown into utter chaos. Many families were torn apart by this, parents abandoning their children for death. Workers were also affected, but for a bit of good since the decline of workers meant they could request more pay for their increased labor.

  7. What had caused this? The black death was caused by fleas that lived on rats. These rats had traveled on the trade ships going from Caffa to Messina. When the flea bit a person, it put the bacteria for the disease into the persons bloodstream. Once the disease spread, it could also be spread simply by breathing in the same air that the sick had.

  8. The true cause of The Black Death

  9. Why the think it happened People of that time didn’t know what truly caused the black death. Some people thought it was caused simply by breathing in foul air around, caused by pollution. They also thought that is was the Jewish people, who had poisoned wells that was causing them to have this sickness. But, the most popular believe was that it was simply a punishment sent from God to force the sinners to repent.

  10. What was the cure? While there was no cure around then that would work for sure, now a series of antibiotics can be used to cure the disease.

  11. What did they think would cure? There were a few cures then that they thought but work, but never did. Some of them were outrageous, but a few actually seem quite realistic, such as the idea to clean the streets of all waste and to bury all the bodies in an attempt to sanitize the area. Another idea they thought would work was to cut open the buboes and let them bleed to get out the disease, then cover the cut areas with ointments. The last idea was to place a living hen next to the person to draw out the sickness, then drink a glass of their own urine twice a day.

  12. An unrealistic cure – bloodletting by leeches

  13. How can you avoid it? So how is one supposed to protect themselves from this? For one thing, wear thick clothing that covers your skin in order to prevent fleas from biting you. Also try avoiding areas with a high rodent population around it. Avoiding a highly populated town will also lower your chances of catching the disease, since there are less people, so less of disease will spread.

  14. Supposed ways to protect yourself That had a few different thoughts on how to protect oneself from the disease, such as praying to God, or whipping oneself in a bizarre performance of Jesus’ demise. They had also thought that fire might be able to keep away the disease, due to its purifying properties.

  15. Keeping the plague away with prayer

  16. The outcome The final outcome of the epidemic was disastrous. It had wiped out approximately forty percent of Europe’s population at that time- a horrifying estimate of about 25 million people who lost their lives. Was survival at that time possible? Yes it was, but was it easy? From the mass of the dying to the flageolets going from town to town killing people they thought had caused this, no. Survival during this time wasn’t any easy thing, but it was possible.

  17. Simply follow the rules mentioned before, and you have a high possibility of surviving!

  18. Or…. Maybe you won’t. We’ll never know for sure.

  19. References • http://worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar062340&st=the+black+death • http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/black_01.shtml • http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm • http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/cures_for • http://www.william-shakespeare.info/bubonic-black-plague-elizabethan-era.htm_the_black_death.htm

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