black death

Question 1

what did most people believe caused the black death?

Answer 1

miasma

Question 2

what treatments did people use ?

Answer 2

• camomile lotion
• live toads and chickens over buboes
• balance of the 4 humours
  -letting blood flow from vein

Question 3

what were some beliefs about the black death ?

Answer 3

• god punished them for their sins
• the movement of planets
• miasma

Question 4

how did people react to the black death ?

Answer 4

• people confessed sins
  -churches blessed bread
• flagellants would whip themselves so god would take away plague

Question 5

what did people do to try cure the black death ?

Answer 5

-carry posies of flowers
-burn rosemary to make air smell nice
-not get sweaty
-dont make eye contact

Question 6

how did the black death have a social impact ?

Answer 6

• killed 60% population
• 3.5 million people died
• bodies buried in mass graves
• plague did not go away
• travelled 500 miles 500 days

Question 7

how did the plague impact towns ?

Answer 7

-spread house to house
-lodgers and children forced out on the streets
- bodies and waste threw out on the streets

Question 8

did the plague go away ?

Answer 8

-died down 1350
-struck again 1361-61
-people had a continuous fear
- continuous plague encourage mayors and councils to take more care

Question 9

public health

Answer 9

the health of the population as whole

Question 10

when was the medieval period ?

Answer 10

1250-1300

Question 11

how did monasteries make effort to improve public health ?

Answer 11

monks knew how to read-they built conduit to bring water to churches and hospitals for the needy

Question 12

how did town authorities help improve public health ?

Answer 12

they tried to keep streets clean and keep dung outside town walls, try to prevent leprosy

Question 13

why did the black death spread so quickly ?

Answer 13

• living conditions
• lack of science and technology
• beliefs and attitudes

Question 14

living conditions

Answer 14

• animals were brought inside
• carcasses left on streets
• rats in houses

Question 15

lack of science and technology

Answer 15

-people had no understanding of germs
- no technology to investigate germs

Question 16

beliefs and attitudes

Answer 16

• king believe he had no responsibility
• people carried herbs/flowers to remove bad smell(miasma)

Question 17

what was the bubonic plague ?

Answer 17

-black swellings/buboes
- intense fever
- very contagious- death within days

Question 18

what was the pneumonic plague ?

Answer 18

• infects the respitory system
• infects circulatory system
• cough up blood - death with in days

Question 19

what was the septicemic plague ?

Answer 19

• caused when infection reaches bloodstream
• no buboes
• internal bleeding
  -toes and noes rot turn black and rot away

Question 20

what are the 4 humours ?

Answer 20

where illness was caused by having too much blood, black bile, yellow bile or phlegm in the body

Question 21

what was an unhelpful cure for the black death ?

Answer 21

they tried moving to the countryside to find “ clean/ pure air” - spread to other places/quicker

Question 22

what actually caused the black death ?

Answer 22

rats

Question 23

how did people in medieval towns get their food ?

Answer 23

market days and trading

Question 24

miasma

Answer 24

bad smelling air

Question 25

who had the most power in medieval period?

Answer 25

the king

Question 26

how did the king react to the black death ?

Answer 26

he didnt think he had any responsibility and did nothing to help

Question 27

who was responsible for the public health ?

Answer 27

monasteries, town authorities

Question 28

how did people prevent the black death ?

Answer 28

• people prayed for forgiveness
• flagellants whipped themselves
• balancing humours by bloodletting
• posies to get rid of miasma

Question 29

attempts to improve public health ?

Answer 29

• 1393 a jetty built into river thames so carcases could be taken away
• 1415 major order rebuilding of latrine in moorgate
• 1478 animal skinners banned from london