Blood Letting was popular then. where they would cut the sores and let them bleed
they used masks.
I think that they used herbs. I think that they used herbs.
Yes! They used it for medicine. The people thought it would cure the Black Plague.
There isn't a vaccine for the plague; however, antibiotics are used for treatment. Streptomycin and gentamycin are the antibiotics most often used.
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There really was no cure. The people during the time of the Stuarts thought that tobacco smoke would keep the plague away. They thought wearing lucky charms like dead frogs would cure the plague. Some prayed. Some used the sweat of the sick and the fluid of the sores to transfer to pigeons.
People who died during the bubonic plague were usually placed in the handle of a giant cataput then launched to the other side of their wall.
They used protective suits made of leather with a mask with a long nose full of flowers, coz they belived the plague was caused by bad smells.
Since it was not commonly known that bubonic plague was carried by the rat flea, it was generally assumed to be a supernatural affliction. Healers tried to ward off the plague by wearing masks and reciting incantations. The effectiveness of these methods in unknown but severely doubted. People killed all the rats and pets. They buried dead bodies deep and burnt everything.
People had the same medical problems we have today, but the science wasn't there to cure them. Herbs, mercury, bleeding, leaches, and other things were used as cures. Many times the cure did more harm than the disease.
The medieval plague of the black death greatly preceded the discovery of penicillin. No antibiotics, or any other effective treatments, were used to treat the black death.
The plague wiped out a third of the population in Europe in 1347 and most of the plague was carried by rats, when rats used to bit people they passed it on.