The Bubonic Plague was devastating in the European Middle Ages. Another names for the Bubonic Plague is the Black Death. Another type of bubonic plague is pneumonic plague and septicemia plague, both caused by the black death. 25 million people died in just under five years between 1347 and 1352, about 1/3 of the European population at the time. Symptoms of the Plague were black splotches with red rings around them. Basically you rotted from the outside, then you died. In Middle ages Europe this caused a great commotion. People expected to die so there was great disregard to laws. Some people even blamed the Jewish population for their troubles. Strange superstitions started and were used like blood letting, also doctors started wearing bird masks filled with herbs. The reason for the herbs was so the air that the plague victim breathed was purified. It was thought if you breathed the same air you would be infected. It was believed that if you looked straight at a Plague victim you would be infected too. To prevent this the doctors put jewels in the eye holes to filter out the curse. In the winter the plague seemed to disappear. That was because the fleas that carried it became dormant. under this text is a picture of a plague victim and beneath that is a picture of what the face of a doctor would have looked like in the Middle Ages.
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