What is the Plague?
The plague was is a deadly disease that causes painful swelling of lymph glands and also causes red dots that turn black that it got it’s name. It was spread by rats, but the fleas transmitted to humans and started the plague.
Has the Plague ever occurred before?
In the early 1330s an outbreak of the Plague or Black Death, it killed 20 - 25 million people all over Europe. Three Merchant ships docked after a trip to the Black Sea, most of the men aboard were already dead and those who were alive were extremely sick and close to death. In days it spread through the city and the surrounding countryside.
Are you able to cure the Plague?
One of the most popular treatment methods was aromatherapy which is where you use sweet smelling flowers to cure the Black Death if you were unable to get flowers you were to carry packets of herbs. Another was letting leaches clean your veins. If you couldn't afford you had to use a blade to cut into your vein which lead to other diseases.
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