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How did people attempt to stop them from catching the black death?
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∙ 13y ago
There was little scientific or medical knowledge in the Middle Ages, so most of what they did to try to stop the plague did not have any effect on it. Some things they did were: applied poultices of various foods and substances to the buboes (the swellings caused by the plague); opened the buboes with knives, which actually would make the plague spread faster; various folk medicine or witchcraft remedies such as using a frog applied to the buboes, to try to remove the plague; prayer and blessing by priests, which often resulted in the death of the priest from the plague; blaming minorities and trying to stop the plague by removing the minorities (such as Jews) from their midst; herbal and dietary remedies; flagellation (whipping themselves) was practiced by some in an effort to get God's forgiveness, because they believed the plague was the result of sin. Unfortunately, the flagellation opened wounds on the bodies of such people, giving an easy route for the disease to spread. These people, known as "flagellants," also travelled from town to town to spread their belief that the plague could be stopped in this way, and the fact that they travelled also increased the plague, because they were carrying it with them in their bodies from town to town.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 13y agoSome of them, such as the inhabitants of Eyam, isolated and quarantined themselves to help stop the spread of Plague.
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Cinna dies, when they torture him to death in an attempt to break katniss, in catching fire.
What was the flagellant movement of the black death?
Christians believed the black death was a punishment from god so the flagallant movement during the time of the black death was when people would offer bodily penance to god by whipping themselves in attempt to rid themselves of the black death.
Who had the black death?
black death spread in Europe. black death killed 75 to 200 million people.
How did the people react to the Black Death?
They wiped themselves and tortured eachother.
What fraction of people were killed by the black death in Europe?
1 in 3 people were killied by the black death
What people thought the black death happened?
When Black Death spread. People thought it as anger of god.
Are people suffring from black death?
no, as if now. No new case has been noted of black death.
Did people get poises in the black death?
no
How did people catch the Black Death back in the Middle agas?
People caught Black Death by the fleas transferring the virus to humans.
How did people after the first few deaths of the black death?
people did not realize Black Death at first. They thought it to be common incidents of fever.
When people had the Black Death what did people think it was?
Black Death was thought to be anger of god. Or conspiracy by Jews.
Why might humanism have appealed to people after the black death?
after Black Death people rebelled a lot. Humanism appealed them to maintain order.
