Some of the curing methods used involved rubbing onions or traditional herbs on the boil with an attempt to cure the disease. The plague, given the name Black Death, wiped almost a quarter of the entire Europe’s population. It was alleged that approximately thirty million citizens both children and adults died during the deadly plague due to lack of medication. However, all the medication attempts by doctors proved futile. The plague did not select who to kill and who to spare, as long as you were diagnosed with the disease, the chances of surviving were very slim.
In China where the disease originated from, it was estimated that close to ten million innocent lives were lost during the deadly plague. Today, with advancement in technology doctors have special machines and highly equipped laboratory where they carry out daily research on measures of controlling and preventing such kind of diseases. In fact, there exist very few diseases that are incurable in the world in the twenty-first. Those that are incurable, researches are carried out on a daily basis to find cures. During the rea of emperor Mongol, there was no modern medicine, no
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First, there was the Pax Mongolica which was a period of people among all the people who were under the rule of Mongol. During this peace treaty period, the skill road trading routes between China and Europe were reopened promoting cultural exchange. The expansion of the Mongol emperor contributed immensely in the unification of Russia. Initially, Russians were subdivided into various self-governing city-states. In order to break from the Mongol reign, the Russians joined hands and started working in unison. It was the Mongols who introduced the deadly Chinese inventions to Europe; gunpowder and guns. The invention of the fighting weapons revolutionized the fighting tactics in the European
The Pax Mongolica is an important reason why the Mongolian empire had a positive impact on Eurasia because both the Mongols and other regions were able to gain needed resources and survive longer. These routes not only posed as routes for trade, but also acted as a way for communication throughout the empire, as depicted on document 1. The rise of the Pax Mongolica helped enforce safer and better trade. It gave Eurasia a well needed time of peace and prosperity since the Mongols hadn’t halted their invasions. During this time merchants were able to travel from one end of the empire to another with a lower risk of being attacked. This blossomed trade since goods were successfully transported throughout Eurasia for a duration that would keep cities surviving. The collapse of the Pax Mongolica was also a positive for Eurasia because the decline in trade and the collapse of the Mongolian empire led to an “Age of Exploration” -Document 7. This Age of Exploration began with Christopher Columbus, and westerners searching for new routes to China and India. Document 7 states; “Thus, the Mongols indirectly led to European exploration and the intrusion of Europeans into Asia. These are both positive effects the Mongols had on Eurasia because without the rise and the fall of the Pax Mongolica more regions around the world, including Eurasia would be left
During the 14th century the Bubonic plague swept across Asia, Africa, and Europe. It killed millions of people and ended feudalism. Even thought there was no cure at the time there were ways the thought they could prevent it by.
The plague was the deadliest of its time. We now know ways on how to cure certain strains of the plague but some we can still not control it . In document 2 you can tell that 33% of all population had died from the black death. It had originated from “from the east” claim a lot of people.
In the Medieval time, the doctor used a lot of different ways to prevent the Black death plague. There are some ways to prevent the plague that the doctor used such as: Dried flowers, herbs and spices, vinegar and rose water, leeches, ten-year old treacle , place a living hen next to the lymph nodes ,ball of perfume and crushed emeralds.
Beginning in the mid-fourteenth century, a plague swept the world like no other. It struck in a series of waves that continued into the eighteenth century. The first wave was estimated to have killed twenty-five million people, about a third of the Western Europe population at that time. Throughout the different outbreaks, the plague, also known as the Bubonic Plague or the Black Death, caused people to react in several ways. Some people believed the plague was a medical problem that can be treated, some found themselves concerned only with their own greed, still others believed there was nothing they could do and reacted in fear, and most people believed it was a form of divine
Other ways to prevent or cure the plague were to be happy and avoid bad thoughts, drink good wine, avoid eating fruit, put fragrant herbs in beverages, avoid lechery, do not abuse the poor, eat and drink in moderation, maintain a household in accordance with a person’s status. There are antibiotics that are available but they are only recommended if a person is certain they have been exposed to plague-infected fleas or animals. The Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague. The infection takes three to five days to incubate in people before they become ill and then another three to five days before, in eighty percent of the cases, the victims die.
"An estimated 22-45 million people were killed in Europe alone", a vast majority of them in the working class. This "slowed down trade, production, and harvesting" to a crawl. As the peasants were dying of the Plague, “the nobility was losing their money, being forced to pay more and more for their food.” The Great Famine quickened the spread of the plague greatly. The Middle East lost an estimated third of its population and it was starting to spread east into Asia. Thankfully, the mini Ice Age, (A period where the world received long, dark, cold winters and shorter summers). This nearly stopped the spread of the illness and over the course of the next hundred years, it died (Slavicek 24). At its peak, “the plague spread rapidly,” in some areas, “killing off more than 80 percent of the local population”(Peasants). After the Plague died down in the 1350’s, it had succeeded in “killing somewhere between 35 and 50 percent of Europe's entire population” (The Black Death: Real). The Plague finally stopped spreading “at the same time that technology started to advance and people started to take care of personal hygiene.” As life started to evolve and people kept clean, less and less people were getting sick. Europe was even starting to regain some of its population back (The Black
In the 14th century and the 19th century they had to overcome various struggles when trying to treat the Plague because of their different medical advancements. Medical knowledge in the 1300’s was as advanced as what the average person knows about medical diseases today. They
The Black Death was one of the most life-changing pandemics in history. It was first discovered 550 years later in the 1800s by Alexandre Yersin, a french biologist. In his honor, the plague was named Yersinia Pestis. The plague traveled in two major ways. Yersin discovered that it traveled by infected fleas; the flea would attempt to feed on a human or animal and would then regurgitate the disease into the new host, further spreading the illness. Urban areas across Europe were populous with rats, which were one of the main hosts of the plague. These rodents spread the Black Death throughout cities in days. The unaffected still were not safe if they did not come in contact with an infected flea or rat. The plague also traveled pneumonically, or through the air. It caused large boils full of blood and pus, which would pop and spread. Another symptom was coughing, which was one of the many ways of proliferation. The disease eventually spread throughout Europe and killed a third of it’s population. It’s wrath caused many shortages, loss in hope, riots, and even some good things, such as many changes in art, science, and education. Therefore, the Black Death was one of the most life-changing pandemics in history.
Towards the end of the post classical period, during the early twelfth century new empires rose to power. Specifically, the Mongol Empire located in the steppes of Central Asia. The Mongol Empire was started by Genghis Khan who was part of a nomadic clan. Khan used his position as leader of the clan to unite all the clans in the area to create a very powerful army, which he then used to expand further and conquer empires such as China, Russia, the Middle East, and and the city of Baghdad creating the Mongol Empire. The Mongol Empire controlled the most land of any empire. As the Mongol Empire conquered new Empires they effected them through the environment, social classes, politically economically, and their culture. Two empires that the Mongol Empire had an effect drastically on was China and Russia politically and economically. The Mongol Empire improved China and Russia economically by facilitating trade routes stabilizing China economy and helped Russia semi-stable their economy. Politically the Mongol Empire enforced a system which united the people in China and helped Russia develop a political system indirectly.
Sometimes, like most explanations back then, it was the work of God and punishment afflicted upon Europe for whatever reasons of the time. For these people, the only cure was to be somehow forgiven by God. This was usually done by people carving or painting the symbol of the cross on the front doors of their house with the words “Lord have mercy on us” either near it or on it. Another great contributor to the destruction of the Black Death was the Great Fire of London which helped eradicate most of the rats that carried the disease and wiping out most of the people with the disease. The plague actually repeatedly continued to remain in Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the centuries. The major occurences of the plague happened around the year 1346 and 1671. The Second Pandemic Black Death was pretty active in the years 1360 and 1667. All of Europe was ravaged and it impacted Europe so devastatingly that it took 150 years for the population of Europe to be fully recovered. Quarantining people was another way of combating the plague in ancient times. Taking anti-bio tics was advised was advised in case you came into contact with a victim of the disease. In early 2011 it was discovered that the bacteria Yersinia Pestis was actually the culprit for one of the most devastating pandemics ever to surface in the world. While
A handful of cures were innocuous. For example, aromatherapy was harmless. An individual with the Black Death, “carrying sweet flowers wherever they went.(Shariff Mohammad, “Ten Crazy Cures for the Black Plague” list verse, www.listverse.com) would contract nothing more than a sneeze, unless they were allergic to roses or petunias. Then they might get sinusitis, which is not deadly. For instance,
They had to go through the dreadful symptoms of the Black Plague. The symptoms of the illness would be a high fever, headaches, a severe cough, weakness, abdominal pain, and sometimes even vital tissue bleeding. But fortunate ones got a swift death and missed the clutches of death. The only hope of recovering was to get a doctor and get their treatment of cooked onions, ten year old treacle, sitting in a room between two fires, and sometimes even arsenic. “With this new disease outbreak us doctors are having trouble finding remedies to cure it. We have tried everything like putting herbs in your house and around your neck to making people sit in sewers, but so far nothing has worked.”, quoted Dr. Russell Jones. But with the symptoms getting worse the need for doctors is increasing. However when doctors work with suffering patients then they start catching the sickness too. This lowering the amount of doctors living in affected towns and cities causing many of the infected helpless. Many now think this disease will take the life of everyone on the Earth as it is the end of the
It was believed in the middle ages that this disease was caused by poor hygiene, bad eating habits, corrupted humid air, and a lack of rest. Once a person was thought to be infected the doctors would move them to a non-infected area thinking that this would heal the persons illness instead this transported the disease even further than normal. In modern times we have made leaps and bounds to control this illness. One of the main problems of the plague is that it is not treatable until the victim gets tested and confirmed that the plague is the illness. Once that is done they will start receiving high doxycycline doses and many other types of antibiotics. The mortality rate for someone that is not treated is 50-90% compared to treated cases of 1-15%.
The pandemic known to history as the Black Death was one of the world’s worst natural disasters in history. It was a critical time for many as the plague hit Europe and “devastated the Western world from 1347 to 1351, killing 25%-50% of Europe’s population and causing or accelerating marked political, economic, social, and cultural changes.” The plague made an unforgettable impact on the history of the West. It is believed to have originated somewhere in the steppes of central Asia in the 1330s and then spread westwards along the caravan routes. It spread over Europe like a wildfire and left a devastating mark wherever it passed. In its first few weeks in Europe, it killed between 100 and 200 people per day. Furthermore, as the weather became colder, the plague worsened, escalating the mortality rate to as high as 750 deaths per day. By the spring of 1348, the death toll may have reached 1000 a day. One of the main reasons the plague spread so quickly and had such a devastating effect on Europe was ultimately due to the lack of medical knowledge during the medieval time period.