The Black Death health and medicine

Question 1

What did people think were the causes

Answer 1

Sin, anger of God, a Jewish plot to poison water in Wells

Question 2

Actual causes

Answer 2

Plague black boils ulcers on the skin, fleas on black rats, transmitted from person to person

Question 3

What century was it

Answer 3

Mid 14th century, 1348 to 1351

Question 4

When did it reach Britain and Ireland

Answer 4

1348 1349

Question 5

Consequences results economy

Answer 5

Less tenants lower rents, less labourers higher wages ,some villages wiped out mass burials