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Title: The Black Death


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The Black Death
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Key questions
  • There are 3 questions that will be asked during
    the course of the lesson
  • 1. What is the Black Death?
  • 2. What caused the Black Death?
  • 3. What were the consequences?

3
The plague arrives
  • Historians think that the plague arrived in
    England during the summer of 1348. During the
    following autumn it spread quickly through the
    south west. Few villages escaped. Churchyards
    were full with bodies.
  • The plague spread quickly during the winter of
    1348-1349 to the north of England. By 1350,
    nearly the whole of Britain was infected with the
    plague.
  • At the end of 1350 nearly two and a half million
    people were dead!

4
Where did the Black Death come from?
5
What were the symptoms of the plague?
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What caused the plague?
  • The question that you are probably thinking is
    this
  • Q Who or what caused the Black Death?
  • A This is your answer!

The Oriental Rat Flea!
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How was the plague transmitted?
  • We now know that the most common form of the
    Black Death was the BUBONIC PLAGUE! This disease
    was spread by fleas which lived on the black rat.
    The fleas sucked the rats blood which contained
    the plague germs. When the rat died the fleas
    jumped on to humans and passed on the deadly
    disease.

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Cures?
  • Medieval people did not know about germs causing
    disease. They did not understand that plague was
    spread by rats and fleas. They thought that
    peoples bodies were poisoned.
  • If the swellings burst and the poison came out
    people sometimes survived. It seemed sensible to
    draw out the poison.

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Medieval cure number 1
  • The swellings should be softened with figs and
    cooked onions. The onions should be mixed with
    yeast and butter. Then open the swellings with a
    knife.

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Medieval cure number 2
  • Take a live frog and put its belly on the plague
    sore. The frog will swell up and burst. Keep
    doing this with further frogs until they stop
    bursting. Some people say that a dried toad will
    do the job better.

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Question
  • How useful do you think these medieval cures
    actually were? Did they help at all or were they
    more harmful?
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