Y7 The Black Death Flashcards
What is a symptom
Signs of how a person is being affected by an illness
What is a diagnosis
Finding out what disease someone has after examining them
What is a prescription
A set of instructions to cure someone
What was the 2 diseases in the black death
Pneumonic and bubonic
How was the bubonic plague spread
Through lice
How was the pneumonic plague spread
Through blood and breath of the infected
What did the bubonic plague do
It created buboes on you filled with blood and pus
What did the pneumonic plague do
Attacks your lungs
How was the black death caused
A bacteria called yersinia pestis
What did the people think caused the black death
Bad air, position of stars and planets, The jews and god’s punishments
What did the government do to deal with the black death
Keeping the streets clean, laws and quarantine
What did the people do to stop the black death
Drinking mercury, strapping a shaved chicken to the buboes, beat themselves for god’s sympathy and quarantined
When did the plague start?
Summer 1348
