The Black Death Symptoms and Cures

The black death was a horrible time in the middle ages. The plague hit in 1347  and ended in 1350. The plague hit Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Everyone was affected by it no matter how wealthy you were. If you got it you died within a week. There were dead bodies everywhere they were put in mass graves where the would put layers and layers of bodies. They also were often put in rivers. The symptoms were big black boils, Aching limbs, spasms, Black liquid coming out of the skin, bleeding under the skin, fatigue and fever. There were three plagues the bubonic, pneumonic and septicaemic plague all of which were deadly. Some of the ways they tried to cure themselves were rubbing onion, herbs or chopped up snake on the boils, Rubbing cut up pigeon all over your body, drinking vinegar or eating crushed up minerals, mercury or ten year old treacle.