Dealing with the Great Plague in London, 1665
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- Dealing with the Great Plague in London, 1665
- Causes
- Astrology
- an unusual alignment that was seen as an unlucky arrangement that suggested there was a trouble ahead.
- Punishment from God
- a result of mankind's wickedness and that God had sent it to lean up his kingdom.
- Miasma
- the most popular theory: it was released from the soil in warm weather and from the rubbish of 17th-century life.
- Other people
- people believed that it could be spread from person to person, but there was no proof of this
- Astrology
- Treatment
- To be wrapped in thick woolen cloths and laid by a fire so that they could sweat the disease out.
- Transference was a popular method: lancing buboes with chicken feathers etc.
- herbal remedies continued to be extremely popular: medicines, poultices or rubs.
- quack doctors took advantage of the general panic and sold fabulous/fake cures for a profit.
- Prevention
- Advice from physicians
- prayer and repentance, quarantine for the infected, carrying a pomander to drive off miasma, various diets,
- Plague doctors wore special costumes to avoid catching the plague from their patients- hooked masks full of flowers (birdlike design was thought to remove disease)
- prayer and repentance, quarantine for the infected, carrying a pomander to drive off miasma, various diets,
- Advice from other healers
- plague water: native/exotic herbs
- it was believed that catching syphilis would prevent a person from catching the Great Plague - as both had buboes as a symptom.
- Government action
- Charles II decreed that people should fast regularly and made a list of actions to stop the spread of the plague.
- large public gatherings were banned: theaters were closed, streets/alleys were swept clean
- fires were burnt on street corners - with sweet smelling herbs - to drive off miasma.
- pests - pigeons, cats and dogs - were killed in the streets..
- Quarantine the infected to stop the spread of disease: searchers and wardens were appointed.
- Charles II decreed that people should fast regularly and made a list of actions to stop the spread of the plague.
- Escape the plague.
- Advice from physicians
- Causes
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