The Black Plague
"The Great Plague"
Symptoms
- Painful Swellings(know as buboes)
- High Fever
- Vomiting
- Muscular Pains
- Bleeding in the lungs
- mental disorientation
- Intense desire to sleep
Treatments
- Vinegar was used as a cleansing agent because it was believed that it would kill the disease.
- Bloodletting was the most common way of treating the disease.
- The blood that exited was black, vile and thick and said to have a greenish scum mixed in.
- Cutting open the buboes and applying warm poultice butter, onion and garlic was also another treatment.
Relieved with:
- Liquorice
- Comfrey
Relived by:
- Wormwood
- Mint
- Balm
Relieved by:
- Rose
- Lavender
- Sage
- Bay
- Various combinations of herbs were given to relive the symptoms.
Other Signs of the Plague
Effects of "The Great Plague"
- Prices and Wages rose
- Great value of labor
- Farming land was given over to pasturing
- Boost in cloth and wool industry
- Peasants moved from the country into towns
- Decline of the Feudal System
- Decline of the power and influence of the church
- English reformation
Reason for this flyer
This flyer was made for an English project
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