Treatments

        

Victum of the Plague

There were many ways that the disease was treated. One way was that doctors would tell the victims to wash themselves in vinegar and water. They would need to stay in bed and rest for it to work. Another way was that the doctor would cut open the swelled section that was infected so that the disease could just “flow out”. Merchants would make and sell a warm substance to put on the wound; they would make it out of tree resin and lily roots. Unfortunately, none of these techniques have worked.

When people were starting to panic, some surgeons would actually try bloodletting, which is where they would cut you and then let the cut bleed to help heal you faster. Some medicine was even created to cure the awful disease. You might have to drink crushed eggshells and marigold petals two times a day! Some people were very unlucky and were told to drink urine. They also had to hold a chicken, which was alive, to the infected area so they could pass the disease on to the animal. No cure was ever found to stop the spread, but it did, eventually, stop.