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The Dark Ages - Coggle Diagram
The Dark Ages
Diseases
Black Death
Leprosy
Smallpox
Typhoid
Diphtheria
Malaria
Dysentery
Flu
Treatments
Blood Letting (B)
Leeches
By a Physician
Isolation Wards (B)
Lepers had to wear bandages and carry a bell to warn others about their condition
Cures That Were Tested (BD):
Rubbing onions, herbs or a chopped up snake (if available) on the boils or cutting up a pigeon and rubbing it over an infected body.
Drinking vinegar, eating crushed minerals, arsenic, mercury or even ten-year-old treacle!
Sitting close to a fire or in a sewer to drive out the fever, or fumigating the house with herbs to purify the air.
People who believed God was punishing you for your sin, 'flagellants', went on processions whipping themselves.
In the 1361 - 1364 outbreak, doctors learned how to help the patient recover by bursting the buboes.
Doctors often tested urine for colour and health. Some even tasted it to test.
Cures that were tested (L)
Soaking in a bath medicated with the blood of an infant or a virgin was considered a possible cure.
A concoction containing gold, a metal that symbolized richness and purity.
Later Impact
Led to the downfall Viking Colony
Context
Europe/England
Viking Raids
Recession in Europe
Great Slump in England