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They used to:

-Put the patient to bed

-wash the patient in vinegar and rose water

-Lance the buboes

-Apply tree resin, roots of white lilies and dried human waste to the buboes

-Cut open the veins leading to the heart and apply clay and crushed violets

-Make sure the patient ate bread, fruits and vegetables

-Make sure the patient didn't eat meat, fish or cheese. (This was because they go off quickly and smell, and smell was thought to be one of the causes of the plague.)

-Drive off all foreigners and Jews. (The Jews and strangers were thought to poison the wells to spread the pestilence.)

-Burn dead people's clothes

-Burn waste from the streets

-Mix powdered newly-laid eggshell, chopped marigold petals and leaves and treacle with a 'pot of good ale' and drink it every morning and every night.

-Place a live hen next to the swelling

-Drink a glass of their own urine every day, or, even better, of a goat's.

-Let out bad blood (bloodletting, often performed with leeches)

-Apply a warm poultice to the buboes of onion, butter and garlic

-Wear a long leather cloak with a mask stuffed full of herbs

-Kill all the cats and dogs (They were thought to cause the plague)

-Carry bags of herbs and flowers

-Live in houses sheltered from the wind

-Sat next to a blazing fire (like the Pope did for the entire duration of the plague)

-Soften the swellings with figs and cooked onions mixed with yeast and butter

-Light scented fires

And some treatments to ease the symptoms...

-Rose, lavender and bay for the headache

-Wormwood, mint and balm for nausea

-Liquorice and comfrey for lung problems.

Please note that these cures do not work, and didn't work then. The Black Plague was caused by Yersina pestis, a bacterium that was transmitted from fleas onto rats onto humans.

You can cure the plague with antibiotics if they are taken at the right time.

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