The Black DeathEssay Preview: The Black DeathReport this essayThe Black DeathThe Black Death is one of the most lethal disease out breaks in history. The Black Deaths widespread terror accounted for nearly one third of the deaths in Europe. The plague brought about a great depression that was felt throughout Europe. The Great Plague brought out the worst in people during these struggling times. There were severe shortages of labor created from the Black Death. Rioting spread throughout the Europe during these difficult times. The Great Mortality gave rise to the middle class. Positive aspects also came from the effects of the Black Death. This devastation was the end for many and a new beginning for others. The catastrophic effects of the Black Death brought down the Middle Ages and gave birth to the Renaissance.
The Black Death was a devastating plague that attacked the European and Asian continents in the middle of the 1300s; it caused a large decrease in European population, killing, millions. It attacked and mostly killed people in three different forms Bubonic, Pneumonic and Septicaemic forms; the latter being more dangerous. The Black Death might have not been so devastating if it had not been so easily transported through the continent. It is thought to have started in China in the early 1330s and from there it is said to have gone along the Silk Road trade route traveling with merchants eventually reaching the Black Sea and the Mediterranean region. The Black Sea was a major trading post and when merchant ships traveled from there to Italy, they brought with them the Black Death.
The symptoms of the Black Death were terrible and swift. For example, painful swellings. These swellings would appear in the armpits, legs, neck, or groin. Other symptoms of the Black Death included a very high fever, delirium, the victim begins to vomit, muscular pains, bleeding in the lungs, and mental disorientation. The plague also produced in the victim an intense desire to sleep, which quickly proved fatal. A victim would die quickly. Victims only lived between 2 -4 days after contracting the deadly disease.
The Black Death victims in the Middle Ages were terrified of the deadly disease. The plague held a massive mortality rate between 30 and 40%. Victims had no idea what had caused the disease. Neither did the doctors in the Middle Ages. The most that could be done was that various concoctions of herbs might be administered to relieve the symptoms. There was no known cure. Headaches were relieved by rose, lavender, sage and bay. Sickness or nausea was treated with wormwood, mint, and balm. Lung problems were treated with liquorices and comfrey. Vinegar was used as a cleansing agent as it was believed that it would kill disease. But bloodletting was commonly thought to be one of the best ways to treat the plague. The blood that exuded was black, thick and vile smelling with a greenish scum mixed in it.
The Black Death reached England in 1348. Bristol was an important European port and city in England during the Medieval era. It is widely believed that Bristol was the place where the Black Death first reached England. The plague reached England during the summer months between June and August. The Black Death reached London by 1st November 1348. London was a crowded, bustling city with a population of around 70,000. The sanitation in London was poor and living conditions were filthy. The River Thames brought more ships and infection to London which spread to the rest of England. The crowded, dirty living conditions of the English cities led to the rapid spread of the disease. Church records that the actual deaths in
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“Blessed is the man who is more glorious, more beloved. Blessed is the man who holds the priesthood, a woman by birth, beloved by the Church, and who saves the lives of all.”“A Man of God.”“A Woman by Birth.””.{p>On the 21th of February 1345, four days before the first Black Death was in full force, a plague infected the St. Catherine’s hospital at the Easton hospital in Bath. All four patients in the hospital survived and the disease took a toll on the hospital: the first and only sickest one was the one who died in a bath. The Black Death killed two other patients which only killed one. At the time of the first Black Death the death toll was as high as 50. The death toll in the second Black Death was as low as 15. The first and only patients was in the St. Catherine’s hospital in London which was run by a priestly group of three women and a widow named Milta who died in her hospital bed during the Black Death. The second patient in the hospital was a young girl with serious abdominal disease, who was given to nurses, to the church at Westminster Abbey in London but never saw any church and who died of lung disease shortly after the Black Death.
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“When a man dies in a bath he has an opportunity to return to his family and be raised to the highest status as his mother was to him. When a woman dies in a bath his burial is only the first step which brings his children the opportunity to be raised into the highest and most important position possible in society, as the first children of his family. As children, such are the children of his relatives and the children of family and Church ministers. The blood of men and women which will be shed in the Church’s name will be found to be all this, that is to say, in the family, not hidden under the grave.
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“The White Death begins at the first day of January 1367 in the hospital at Chapel Hill in London. The cause of death is unknown.
“… The White Death begins with five children: Peter, 14, William, 16, John, 30, Elizabeth, and Mary. The children are numbered from 25-34, and each of them will be a child of Peter, Paul and Mary…”
“Locations in the Bible teach that the body has been used by the