case study the black death

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WHAT ILLNESSES WERE INVOLVED IN THE BLACK DEATH (14TH CENTURY)

bubonic plague (bites of fleas. Caused headahes and high temperature, followed by pus sweeling on skin)
pneumonic plague(airborne - spread by coughs + sneezes. Painful to breathe and people coughed up blood)

some people think it came in 1348. At leasta

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WHY DID NOONE KNEW AT THE TIME WHAT CAUSED IT?

-judgement from God
-blamed humour inbalances so triied bloodletting and purging
-miasma, 1349(edward III ordered remobval of filth from streets)
-astrology

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HOW DID THE GOVERNEMTN TRY TO PREVENT THE DISEASE SPREADING?

- townspeople refudes bishop to allow any more bodies into cemetery due to them beliveing if they gpot too close too a coprse thye coud cathc the disease
-Gloucester tired to shut off town due to hearing it entered Bristol - human contact
-Kin Edward III

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-judgement from God
-blamed humour inbalances so triied bloodletting and purging
-miasma, 1349(edward III ordered remobval of filth from streets)
-astrology

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