1. Health and Death

2. Sanitary Methods
Imagine for a second, that all of the hygiene products that you use today were all gone.
Imagine that none of these modern creations existed or were replaced with something that was similar, but far less effective—and maybe just a little bit gross.

3. Chamber Pots
A bowl used as a portable toilet, especially in the bedroom at night.

4. Privies A toilet located in a small shed outside a house
Created a terrible smell

5. Nosegays A small bunch of flowers to mask the stench
baths were not common, and everything stunk

6. Makeup extremely pale skin was considered to be beautiful
Used lead skin whitener that caused:
lead poisoning
hair loss
severe skin damage
death

8. Wigs
lice were such an issue that some people shaved off their hair and wore wigs
Wigs also became infested, especially during times of plague.

10. Treating Illness: bloodletting
One of the most well- known treatments from the Middle Age
the use of leeches as a way to remove a person's blood to help cure them of an illness.

11. Treating Illness: Cupping
involves placing heated cups over certain areas of the skin to increase blood flow and reduce inflammation in the body Used today

12. The Rich Diet highly spiced- spices were expensive
ate few fresh vegetables and little fresh fruit –seen as dirty and dangerous
Fruit was only usually served in pies or was preserved in honey
A vast variety of meats and seafood

13. The Poor Diet home grown foods They were unable to afford spices
Not allowed to hunt deer, boar, hares and rabbits.
Vegetables and fresh fruit were eaten by the poor

14. Most Consumed food: Grains
Grains were the most versatile and consumed food
Grains and flour used in stews
Bread was consumed by all classes.

15. The Black Death
widespread epidemic of bubonic plague that occurred in several outbreaks between 1347 and
It originated in Asia and then swept through Europe
7500 victims of the disease were dying every day

16. Cause of the Black Death
caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) spread to humans by fleas that were carried by rats or other small rodents
symptoms produced a blackening of the skin around the swellings.

18. "Ring Around the Rosie"
Some argue that the song is about the Black Death, but there is some debate as the song has changed over time
Why it appears to be about the Black Death
Ring around the rosie references the black sores that would appear on your body as part of the plague.
pocket full of posies references people who carried flowers in their pockets to combat the constant smell of death in their cities.
We all fall down signifies death.
Husha husha is to represent sneezing