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black death 1348-1349 - Coggle Diagram
black death 1348-1349
prevention
people ran away to escape the bad air.
quarantine and being locked in your house.
prayer and self flagellation.
some physicians recommended doing joyful things.
herbs and flower petals to purify the air.
treatment
ground up emeralds but if you couldn't afford emeralds you could have arsenic or mercury.
rubbing chicken and chopped up pigeons on your boils this was similar to the theory of transference.
quarantine and being locked in your house.
blood letting was common because it was believed it would balance the four humours.
prayer and self flagellation.
causes
bad air or miasma.
foreigners and people from other religions poisoning the wells.
a punishment from god.
the earths position or astrology.
government action
people who had the black death were locked in their houses.
there was quarantines for new people to the town for 40 days.
it was considered to ban large gatherings to stop the spread such as church.