Bubonic Plague and Doctors/Medicine of the Middle Ages By: Hunter H., Miranda J. and Brittany F. CORE:4
Symptoms of Bubonic Plague Muscle Pain Severe Headache General illness Lymph Fever Nausea Organ Failure Vomiting Diarrhea
Symptoms Of Bubonic Plague Seizures Chills High Fever Abdominal Pain Blood Clotting Low Blood Pressure
Treatment People with Plague needed to be treated immediately. If you are not treated in 24 hours symptoms will occur and could die.
Treatment Antibiotics are streptomycin, gentamicin, doxycycline or ciprofloxacin
Causes Plague is caused by Yersinia pestis like rodents.
Causes You can also get plague by getting bite by a flea
Lymph
Lymph from Bubonic Plague.
Nickname Bubonic Plague is also called Black Death.
Severe Case
Doctors/Bubonic Plague Doctor didn’t know much about bubonic plague back in the Middle Ages. The Doctors didn’t know what caused it.
Doctors/Bubonic Plague They didn’t know any antibiotics to treat the people with it, they just gave them herbs and let them relax.
The Survivor Giovanni Baccaccio was the first man to survive Bubonic Plague also known as the Black Death.
One of the deadliest diseases The deadliest disease of the Middle Ages was Bubonic Plague.
Founding Of the Kill The Black death was founded in the city of Florence, Italy.
Medicine Pestilence Medicine
Medicare Was involved in with a wide variety of tactics.
Prescriptions Were given out based on the theory of humans.
Passed Down Most medicine were passed down by the Greeks and Romans.
Body System The Doctors had a good knowledge how the body work.
Punishment People thought the people that were sick were punished by God.
Plants used by Doctors The doctors usually used plant for medicine The plants they used were types of herbs and ginger.
Bloodletting Bloodletting was a common cure. What they did was the patient vein was cut or leeches sucked blood from the affected part of the body.
The Job of a Healer Most Healers were midwives, dentists and apothecaries. Most had no formal training. Most had another job like a butcher or a barber.
Poorly Trained Doctors Because of poorly trained doctor and worked without good hospital many babies died at birth or shortly after.
Early Treatment of the Middle Ages Bathing in human Urine Wore excrement Placed dead animals in house
More Treatment Used leeches to suck blood Drank molten gold and powder emeralds
Helpless The middle age doctor were helpless with terrible diseases and illness.
Pandemic Bubonic Plague killed about One-Third of England
Beliefs of Sickness The middle ages believe the causes of the illness from the ancient teaching of Aristotle and Hippocrates
Humors The humors were the body fluids in some one body.
5 Quality Questions 1.How many people died of Bubonic Plague in England? 2.What is the nickname for Bubonic Plague? 3.What part of the body was the Humors? 4.What are the main types of causes for Bubonic Plague? 5.What countries passed down the medicine to the Middle Ages?
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Sources 2 http://medievalhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/medicine_in_the_middle_ages http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Medicine/Diseases_and_Cures.html