1. Bubonic Plague and Doctors/Medicine of the Middle Ages
By: Hunter H., Miranda J. and Brittany F. CORE:4

2. Symptoms of Bubonic Plague
Muscle Pain
Severe Headache
General illness
Lymph
Fever
Nausea
Organ Failure
Vomiting
Diarrhea

3. Symptoms Of Bubonic Plague
Seizures
Chills
High Fever
Abdominal Pain
Blood Clotting
Low Blood Pressure

4. Treatment People with Plague needed to be treated immediately.
If you are not treated in 24 hours symptoms will occur and could die.

5. Treatment
Antibiotics are streptomycin, gentamicin, doxycycline or ciprofloxacin

6. Causes
Plague is caused by Yersinia pestis like rodents.

7. Causes
You can also get plague by getting bite by a flea

8. Lymph

9. Lymph from Bubonic Plague.

10. Nickname
Bubonic Plague is also called Black Death.

11. Severe Case

12. Doctors/Bubonic Plague
Doctor didn’t know much about bubonic plague back in the Middle Ages.
The Doctors didn’t know what caused it.

13. Doctors/Bubonic Plague
They didn’t know any antibiotics to treat the people with it, they just gave them herbs and let them relax.

14. The Survivor
Giovanni Baccaccio was the first man to survive Bubonic Plague also known as the Black Death.

15. One of the deadliest diseases
The deadliest disease of the Middle Ages was Bubonic Plague.

16. Founding Of the Kill
The Black death was founded in the city of Florence, Italy.

17. Medicine
Pestilence Medicine

18. Medicare
Was involved in with a wide variety of tactics.

19. Prescriptions
Were given out based on the theory of humans.

20. Passed Down
Most medicine were passed down by the Greeks and Romans.

21. Body System
The Doctors had a good knowledge how the body work.

22. Punishment
People thought the people that were sick were punished by God.

23. Plants used by Doctors The doctors usually used plant for medicine
The plants they used were types of herbs and ginger.

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. Poorly Trained Doctors
Because of poorly trained doctor and worked without good hospital many babies died at birth or shortly after.

27. Early Treatment of the Middle Ages
Bathing in human Urine
Wore excrement
Placed dead animals in house

28. More Treatment Used leeches to suck blood
Drank molten gold and powder emeralds

29. Helpless
The middle age doctor were helpless with terrible diseases and illness.

30. Pandemic
Bubonic Plague killed about One-Third of England

31. Beliefs of Sickness
The middle ages believe the causes of the illness from the ancient teaching of Aristotle and Hippocrates

32. Humors
The humors were the body fluids in some one body.

33. 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?

34. Sources https://health.google.com/health/ref/Plague

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