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Eastern Hemisphere

            The disease spread to many countries at many different times. The disease first appeared a little earlier than 541 A.D. At that time it was in Abyssinia and Byzantium, starting the spread around there. The plague hit the British Isle, which is still around the same area, between 541 and 546. Other outbreaks included ones in 542, 558, and 572. Some of the outbursts of the sickness were as late as 581, 590, and even 600!

            The outbreaks disappeared after 750 A.D. but came up again all the way in 1350 A.D. In the 1340’s, and new plague was starting to spread around Asia. It was taking over central Asia and stretching to the outside. An outburst of the new plague came up in 1346. That particular one was in Caffa, a place around Asia, and took many lives. After It went through Caffa, the disease started to spread by sea and went across to all different countries, spreading rapidly with no way to stop it.

Medicine

Farmer Pounding Roots For Medicine

               

             Sickness was thought to be cured by therapy. The people would use dietects, pharmacology, and surgery to get rid of certain sicknesses. Another way that sickness was cured was with the help of hermits and village women. They would often practice magical medicine to help cure someone or even just traditional medicine used everyday. That cure didn't last long because churches started to say that the people were witches, so they weren't too popular in the towns anymore.

             There was a theory that was about what made up the human body. They belived that we were made up of all the elements put into one person. That would mean that I haev fire, earth, air, and water all inside of me right now. I understand water and air, but they should know that people die if they catch on fire and you can't move if you are earth. Overall, medicine was much simpler back then than it is today.

       

There were very many different types of medicine back in medieval times. One way that people were healed is by drinking hot water with herbs. Now we normally call it tea. Different herbs heal different things, but you have to be careful because some herbs might heal, but they can be deadly if used too much. Another way that people were heals is by bleeding with a leech. The leech would suck out the blood which was supposed to suck out the disease along with it. It might have work sometimes, but it was probably painful too.

Starting and Spreading

            The disease started out of no where. Some people say that a group of fisherman came to a town with the disease. They came into contact with the people and by then it was too late and some people already had the disease. Another way that the Black Death started was said to be that God was punishing them. Some people said that the fisherman got the disease as a punishment from God, which would mean that both theories were true. Personally, I think it was not a punishment because it is just their religion that came up with that and there is no fact in it. The only realistic thing that could happen, that they thought of, was the fisherman coming with the disease. It would make sence to belive that because new diseases pop up all the time back then, why would they think that this disease was any different just because it was a new sickness that they had never seen?

            The disease spread around Europe very rapidly. There was becoming no place to hide from the dreadful sickness. Since the weather was becoming unusually dry, the mice were coming out and roaming the streets. These weren’t just any mice, they were mice with fleas. Fleas commonly carry diseases from animal to human, so when the fleas on the mice came in contact with humans, they had their chance. The fleas would ride on the mice then jump to humans and give them the horrible sickness. Fleas multiply fast, so the disease was spreading very easily. It would be impossible to kill all of the fleas and get rid of all infected people before it spread even more, so they probably didn’t even try. They might not have known that it was the fleas that were giving them the disease, not fisherman or punishments from God. The people didn’t have the technology to see the fleas so they couldn’t stop something they couldn’t see.