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Use your imagination:
You are stuck in a world filled with famine, filth, poverty, disease, and suffering. Left and right, seemingly random people are dying. The Church's promises to end this have been broken and people are losing faith almost as swiftly as they are losing their lives. It is a terrible time.
Now what would you write to your mom and pop?
What else can I help you with?
Was Pneumonic plague caught through breathing?
yes if someone who had the black death breathed on you or you breathed it in the you would have the pneumonic plague
What were the superstitions during the bubonic plague?
Some thought that toad venom would draw the plague out the body and other one was that by rubbing bread on the body of St. Domencia (church in Italy) one eaten the plague would simply be cured
Why were the theatres repeatedly shut during Shakespeare's life?
During outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague all the theaters in London would be ordered to shut down. The chances of surviving the plague were only 50%.
Would someone who lived in a house and infected by the plague have a white dot on their door?
no it was a red x
Did quarantine cure bubonic plague in the middle ages?
Quarantining someone only kept the virus from spreading, it did not purge the plague virus from their bodies. They would have most definitely died.
What problem continued to plague the settlers even during the height of the westward expansion?
Slavery was a problem that continued to plague the settlers even during the height of the westward expansion and would later be the focus of the Civil War.
Why did doctors during the Black Plague wear bird masks?
During the Black Plague, the cause of the deadly disease was unknown and many believed it to be an airborne illness. As a result many doctors wore bird-like masks to shield their faces and keep herbs in the "beak" to fend of the sickness.
How would someone suffer if they had the bubonic plague now a days?
They would react the same way. Although the disease is old, it hasn't changed much.
How were english theaters affected during the black plague?
During the black plague in Europe during the 1300s an estimated 75 to 200 million people died. During peaks of the outbreak English theaters had to shut down since the close concentration of people would have worked to further spread the virus.
How do you say plague in scottish Gaelic?
Plague in noun form would be plá but if you mean plague, as in to annoy, it would be ciap.
What did the stuarts use as plague cures?
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.
What did a villein do every month?
a villein is someone who would have to work for the lord of the manor 40 days for free. but that changed after the plague. mst of the town would have been villeins
