Case Study - Great Plague

• causes - rational


  humours - fewer people but no other option

  miasma - miasma in the soil in winter, air in the summer - followed pattern of the plague

  other people - spread from person to person
• causes - supernatural


  astrology - planets unusual a line, comet

  punishment from God
• Treatment


  sweat the disease out -4H

  transference

  herbal remedies

  Quack Doctors - advertised cures for easy money - Rip Off
• Preventing

  physicians -wore plague outfits- pray, quarantine, carry herbs, experiment with diet

  apothecary - sold 'plague water', sold herbs, sold new herbs
• Preventing

  catch syphilis to avoid catching the great plague
• Preventing - King Charles


  fast regularly

  he made the local government;

  • close theatres, fairs and public meetings
  • clean streets
  • herbs burnt on street corners
  • cats, dogs and pigeons were killed
• Preventing - Mayor of London

  • searches monitor spread
  • quarantine houses
  • collect dead in carts
• preventions

  rich left town
• Black death VS Great plague

  a - causes - no progress - just reduction in belief that God caused it

  b - treatments - some similar, but no progress

  c - prevention - big progress - gov intervention