Causes
Many believed the black death was an unbalancing of the four _______.
Humours
This symptom involves your temperature increasing.
Fever
This vegetable was used to cure the Black Death.
Onion
Doctors put what in their mask to stop the spread of disease?
Herbs (sage, etc)
Similar to Covid-19, medieval people believed they could catch the sickness by _________ others. (fill in the blank)
touching
Sufferers of the disease sometimes had their fingers, toes and other parts of the skin turn what colour?
Black
Similar to what we did during the Covid-19 pandemic, this solution involved separating yourself from others.
Quarantine
This treatment may have involved medieval people sitting in front of toilets...
bad smells
The idea that the Black Death was caused by God as a punishment for...
sin
Vomiting or Diarrhoea
This treatment involved surrounding yourself with something HOT to stop the spread of disease...
fire
This treatment involved putting a plucked animal onto your skin. What animal was it?
Chicken
Similar to reading your horoscope for the week, Medieval people blamed their illness on....
planets
Symptoms that the Black Death shares with Covid-19...
Coughing and breathlessness
This treatment involved making the person bleed using tools or leeches.
Blood-letting
This belief revolved around the idea that you could cancel out bad smells (miasma) with...
good smells
The idea that "bad air" caused the black death.
Miasma
The name of the swellings in the armpit or groin that could grow to the size of an apple and ooze puss.
Buboes (Bubo)
These people believed that the plague was caused as a punishment by God and whipped themselves to pay for their sins.
Flagellants
This treatment involved the crushed up horn of a mythical creature.
unicorn horn