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Black death
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Treatments
Confess your sins to God, and ask for forgiveness through prayer, bleeding, purging, lancing the buboes. All of these were just beliefs apart from lancing the buboes, some people survived from this.
Prevention
Pray to God and fast, go on a pilgrimage and make offerings to God.
Government Action
New quarantine laws, people had to self quarantine for 40 days if they caught it.
Cholera
Treatment
In the early 19th century, there was no treatment, so most people died.
Prevention
People tried to keep their homes as clean as possible, and clean away the streets from rubbish.
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Great Plague
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Prevention
Plague doctors wore costumes to prevent them from catching it, sweet smelling herbs in masks to warn off miasma, waxing the clock.
Treatment
Herbal remedies, transference, sweating the disease out.
Government action
Theatres were closed, large gatherings banned, dogs and cats were killed, streets were regularly cleaned, a household was boarded into their home for 40 days, days of fasting and public prayer were ordered.
Lung Cancer
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Prevention
To reduce the number of people smoking, TV advertisement of cigarettes was banned, tax on tobacco has increased, people in England are not allowed to smoke in public places where people work, which helps stop other people catching the smoke in their lungs.
Treatment
Surgery to remove the tumour, radiotherapy to shrink the tumour.
Government action
The government tried to ban smoking by banning TV advertisements for cigars, tobacco, cigarettes etc.