The Black Death

• What was The Black Death?

  A disease that spread through England in 1348 through rats that got on boats that went through the silk routes. Fleas would've jumped from rats onto humans and infected them.
• Year of The Black Death?

  1348
• What did people believe caused The Black Death?

  • Sent by God as punishment for sin
  • Breathing in bad air
  • Imbalance of the Four Humours
• Prevention of The Black Death (Authorities)

  • Quarantining: people new to an area had to stay away from people and houses that had been affected were isolated for 40 days
  • Strangers were not allowed to enter a village
  • Local authorities stopped cleaning the streets: believed smells from waste would drive away bad air
  • Large gatherings were banned
  • Huge burial sites were created to bury the dead in mass graves
• Treatment of The Black Death

  Lancing (effective): cutting the buboe to let pus and infection out, if buboes were lanced in time the person could've recovered

  Self-flagellation (ineffective): whipping yourself to repent sins, would hurt person more by creating more cuts that could get infected
• Prevention of The Black Death (The People)

  • Confession
  • Prayer
  • Fasting
  • Carrying posies