Cures ranged from the ridiculous to the more practical, and also contained some old-wives tale prevention methods:
Some of the more "creative" cures that were tried were:
There were some more scientifically sound attempts to deal with the plague, though, based on the science of the day, such as:
One of the cures was to put a TOAD on the boils and the toad would suck up all the pus and blood and finally burst. There was also the cure of putting leeches on your skin so they would suck the blood out, this didn't work however as the leeches sucked most your blood out and you would die from lack of blood. Leaving a dead toad or frog to dry and then putting that in a boil was one.
But as you probably know, these remedies did not work.
They also kept people away, in at least one walled town, by raising the drawbridges as soon as they heard about the plague and waiting until it was passed to put them back down. This was another way of keeping people with the black death away (as the first answer indicates) but in this case it did work, at least until the plague came back, years later.
They tried other things, such as making sure everything smelled nice, surrounding themselves with roses, posies, or going the other route and wearing garlic. They tried wearing nose covers that looked like birds' beaks and had sweet smelling things in the. They tried burning people they thought were bad, especially Jews. And they tried walking about the countryside whipping themselves or mutually whipping each other. None of these worked, of course.
The period after the black death was still known as the medieval period.
pop the bubo
Bubonic plauge, also known as the Black Death.
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 disease was called the Black Death because one of the symptoms produced a blackening of the skin around the swellings. The spread of the Black Death followed all of the Trade Routes to every country no matter the condition of each indivual.
75-200 million people in the 14th century.According to medieval historian Philip_Daileaderin 2007:
people thought it is punishment from god. Jews poisoned the wells.etc
no they didnt
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The Black Death wiped out 1/3 of the population, up to 60% of the people in a town (depending on the size) were dead.
Nothing cured the Black Death. The infected people either died or sometimes, miraculously recovered from it.
The period after the black death was still known as the medieval period.
They had to pay really high wages. The black death killed millions! They had to pay 50% more than usually. Peasants were rich!
pop the bubo
The black death
You couldn't. If you caught the black death, it was certiain you would die
Bubonic plauge, also known as the Black Death.