The black death keywords

Question 1

Bloodletting

Answer 1

Treatment for the Black Death which involved placing leeched on the skin and allowing them to suck the blood of the person being treated. This was supposed to cleanse the blood from disease.

Question 2

Pneumonic

Answer 2

Type of Black Death plague that was respiratory. Transmitted by air and attacked the lungs.

Question 3

Bubonic

Answer 3

Type of plague that was carried in the blood stream of rats. Symptoms included buboes which were large boils filled with black puss.

Question 4

Flagellants

Answer 4

Religious members of the catholic church that whipped themselves as a way of repenting from their sins. They also thought by punishing themselves God would not punish them by giving them the plague.