Analysis Of The Bubonic Plague: The Black Death
The Black Death or the bubonic plague was one of the most deadly disease of our time. The Black Death took place between 1348 and 1351. It killed about one third to one half of the population in Europe. It only liked warm weather; therefore it would die out in the winter, but come back strong in the summer. When it would infect a victim it would only take a matter of days to kill him or her. The Black Death would kill so many people so fast that they would dig big pits and put all the dead in a hole in the ground, cover them with some dirt, and then bless them. (Ole J. Benedictow) They would put a little thin layer of dirt in between the layers of people. The Black Death would not have been as destructive if people didn’t try to flee from the
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The Black Death would travel from person to person. If someone’s husband was dying then the wife would take care of him and then his kids would visit. That just killed his whole family. If someone would sneeze of cough and you breathed in that air you just killed yourself. (Adele Madelo lecture December 17th 2015) There were a few exceptions but the people who survived had ugly scars and were permanently damaged from the pledge. The symptoms of the Black Death. The Black Death started like the common cold; You would have a fever and cough. Then stage two came along. You would get black and purple lumps all over your skin and they would leak blood and pus out of you. Or you could also start coughing up you lounges. Your lungs would liquefy and turn into something that you would cough up. You could also get swollen glands and armpits. (Corzine Phyllis 27-56) Even though the Black Death would die out in the winter it came back strong in the spring. The Black Death. The Black Death was the most deadly arm that any human faced. It was also silent and you didn’t know when it would attack your town. No matter how high your walls or how deep your moats the Black Death could get to you. People would turn to the church to ask why and how. The church could do nothing about it. They prayed and nothing happend. Many people believed that it was god saying that the world was coming to an end. ( Benedictow The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe
The Black Death would travel from person to person. If someone’s husband was dying then the wife would take care of him and then his kids would visit. That just killed his whole family. If someone would sneeze of cough and you breathed in that air you just killed yourself. (Adele Madelo lecture December 17th 2015) There were a few exceptions but the people who survived had ugly scars and were permanently damaged from the pledge. The symptoms of the Black Death. The Black Death started like the common cold; You would have a fever and cough. Then stage two came along. You would get black and purple lumps all over your skin and they would leak blood and pus out of you. Or you could also start coughing up you lounges. Your lungs would liquefy and turn into something that you would cough up. You could also get swollen glands and armpits. (Corzine Phyllis 27-56) Even though the Black Death would die out in the winter it came back strong in the spring. The Black Death. The Black Death was the most deadly arm that any human faced. It was also silent and you didn’t know when it would attack your town. No matter how high your walls or how deep your moats the Black Death could get to you. People would turn to the church to ask why and how. The church could do nothing about it. They prayed and nothing happend. Many people believed that it was god saying that the world was coming to an end. ( Benedictow The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe