treatment

• If your humours have caused the imbalance and allowed the pestilence to fester, you must try rubbing onions, herbs and chopped up snake on a buboes to reduce the swelling. Cold foods and cold baths (not shared, but alone) should be used to fit the Theory of Opposites as a way to cool you, or any patient, from fever. Bread can also be placed around the buboes to absorb the pus andthen the bread needs to be buried.
• Bleeding or purging a victim would be used to balance the

  humours. However, this often resulted in the disease spreading

  more quickly and often the patient would not live long enough to

  have the treatment.
• The buboes might be cut open and lanced to drain the pus with the belief that the illness would leave the body and balance the humours. Sometimes these people would survive form this treatment.