The Great Plague - Lord Mayor's orders, Causes, Cures/treatments, Symptoms
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- The Great Plague
- Causes
- Astrology
- Infection
- By breath
- By stench of sores
- By sweat
- An inbalance of the four humours
- looking at a victim
- Miasma
- God
- Lord Mayor's orders
- Boarded up infected houses
- Large crosses on doors and 'Lord have mercy on us'
- For 40 days
- Watchmen appointed to make sure that no one escaped
- Unless infected go to Pest-houses
- Special plague hospitals
- Records of causes of deaths were kept
- Dead were only buried at night
- Fires lit around the city (London)
- Stray dogs were killed
- No other animals were kept in the city
- Boarded up infected houses
- Causes
- Cures/ treatments
- The Great Plague
- Causes
- Astrology
- Infection
- By breath
- By stench of sores
- By sweat
- An inbalance of the four humours
- looking at a victim
- Miasma
- God
- Lord Mayor's orders
- Boarded up infected houses
- Large crosses on doors and 'Lord have mercy on us'
- For 40 days
- Watchmen appointed to make sure that no one escaped
- Unless infected go to Pest-houses
- Special plague hospitals
- Records of causes of deaths were kept
- Dead were only buried at night
- Fires lit around the city (London)
- Stray dogs were killed
- No other animals were kept in the city
- Boarded up infected houses
- Causes
- Wear amulets
- Plague doctors
- Keep gold, Elizabethan coin in mouth
- Carried posies of flowers
- God
- Praying
- Fasting
- Flogging
- Chickens strapped to sores
- Make someone sweat
- Then apply live, cut in half, pigeons
- Or apply plaster
- Made of egg yolk, honey, herb of grace (common rue), wheat flour
- Blood letting
- Eating crushed emeralds
- Drinkng 10 year old treacle
- Eat arsnic powder
- Run away
- Sit in a sewer
- The Great Plague
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