Humanities
Black Death/Bubonic Plague
Black Death
The Black Death is a plague.
Health
As the population grew and the cities increase, medical knowledge was really limited. Even though they tried to put regulation, medieval Europe couldn’t support the health care. Antibiotics weren’t invented until the 1800’s and it was impossible to cure diseases unless you use them.
There were lot myths about health and hygiene. People believed that diseases were spread by bad odors/smells. It was assumed that diseases were also from sin of a soul. Many people felt ease by meditation, prayer, pilgrimages and other nonmedical methods.
The body was viewed as part of the universe, a concept from the Greeks and the Romans. Four humors or fluids were directly relevant to the four elements: Fire (yellow bile or choler), Water (phlegm), Earth (Black Bile) and Air (Blood). These four fluids were to be balanced. If you had too much black bile, it could create melancholy.
Medicine was often a risky business. Bloodletting (cut the vein to let out blood) was a popular method of restoring a patient’s health and humors. Early surgery was done by barber without anesthesia, very painful.
Medical treatment was available mainly to the wealthy, and those living in villages rarely had the help of doctors, who practiced mostly in the cities and the courts. Medical treatment was more for wealthy people. Remedies were often herbal in nature, but also excrement. Many medieval medical manuscripts contained recipes for substances the notion that every substance in nature held some sort of power accounts for the enormous variety of substances. Many treatments were administered by people outside the medical tradition. Coroners’ rolls from the time reveal how lay persons often made sophisticated medical treatment. Natural functions such as sneezing were the best way to maintain health. When there was a build of humor, it could be thrown by urine, sweat and other things.
Surgeries were done for the last resort. Bloodletting was the most common form. The potions used to make you sleep could kill you. One of them consist of lettuce, gall form castrated boar, bryony, opium, henbane and hemlock juice.
Bubonic Plague
Bubonic plague was one of the most feared diseases of the ancient and medieval worlds. Nobody could tell what caused it, and most people who got it died in a few days. When one or two people in a village got it, usually it would spread to everyone and many would die. The plague caused a fever, black spots on your chests and sometimes great big black swellings on your armpits and at t top of your legs. That’s why they called it the Black Death. Theses swellings got hard like rocks and hurt and then in a day or two people usually died. There was no effective treatment, though of course people tried all sorts of things, from magic to surgery. Sometimes people got better on their own, if they had good nursing care and were very healthy to begin with.
Today we know what caused it. It is a bacterium; fleas carry it in the blood they suck. People also get it today, but it could be cured by antibiotics. From DNA evidence, the plague was first found in China, but people also thought it was from Constantinople. Then it spread from Constantinople to Europe, then to the Mongle Empire, to Africa, to France, Germany and more. This plague ended the Mongle Empire killing 1 out of the 3 people.
During the Hundred Years War, Europeans were very poor and hungry because the soldiers wrecked their farms. The people then began to get sicknesses that killed them.
Black Death
The Black Death is a plague.
Health
As the population grew and the cities increase, medical knowledge was really limited. Even though they tried to put regulation, medieval Europe couldn’t support the health care. Antibiotics weren’t invented until the 1800’s and it was impossible to cure diseases unless you use them.
There were lot myths about health and hygiene. People believed that diseases were spread by bad odors/smells. It was assumed that diseases were also from sin of a soul. Many people felt ease by meditation, prayer, pilgrimages and other nonmedical methods.
The body was viewed as part of the universe, a concept from the Greeks and the Romans. Four humors or fluids were directly relevant to the four elements: Fire (yellow bile or choler), Water (phlegm), Earth (Black Bile) and Air (Blood). These four fluids were to be balanced. If you had too much black bile, it could create melancholy.
Medicine was often a risky business. Bloodletting (cut the vein to let out blood) was a popular method of restoring a patient’s health and humors. Early surgery was done by barber without anesthesia, very painful.
Medical treatment was available mainly to the wealthy, and those living in villages rarely had the help of doctors, who practiced mostly in the cities and the courts. Medical treatment was more for wealthy people. Remedies were often herbal in nature, but also excrement. Many medieval medical manuscripts contained recipes for substances the notion that every substance in nature held some sort of power accounts for the enormous variety of substances. Many treatments were administered by people outside the medical tradition. Coroners’ rolls from the time reveal how lay persons often made sophisticated medical treatment. Natural functions such as sneezing were the best way to maintain health. When there was a build of humor, it could be thrown by urine, sweat and other things.
Surgeries were done for the last resort. Bloodletting was the most common form. The potions used to make you sleep could kill you. One of them consist of lettuce, gall form castrated boar, bryony, opium, henbane and hemlock juice.
Bubonic Plague
Bubonic plague was one of the most feared diseases of the ancient and medieval worlds. Nobody could tell what caused it, and most people who got it died in a few days. When one or two people in a village got it, usually it would spread to everyone and many would die. The plague caused a fever, black spots on your chests and sometimes great big black swellings on your armpits and at t top of your legs. That’s why they called it the Black Death. Theses swellings got hard like rocks and hurt and then in a day or two people usually died. There was no effective treatment, though of course people tried all sorts of things, from magic to surgery. Sometimes people got better on their own, if they had good nursing care and were very healthy to begin with.
Today we know what caused it. It is a bacterium; fleas carry it in the blood they suck. People also get it today, but it could be cured by antibiotics. From DNA evidence, the plague was first found in China, but people also thought it was from Constantinople. Then it spread from Constantinople to Europe, then to the Mongle Empire, to Africa, to France, Germany and more. This plague ended the Mongle Empire killing 1 out of the 3 people.
During the Hundred Years War, Europeans were very poor and hungry because the soldiers wrecked their farms. The people then began to get sicknesses that killed them.
Reflection
This is my research about the bubonic plague or could be said as the black death. This wasn't really graded but I was really interested in bubonic plague. It is about a sickness that if you get it you would die. I think I did a great job on researching about the bubonic plague.
This is my research about the bubonic plague or could be said as the black death. This wasn't really graded but I was really interested in bubonic plague. It is about a sickness that if you get it you would die. I think I did a great job on researching about the bubonic plague.