Response To The Pneumonic Plague
When reacting to the Black Plague, Christian and Muslim responses were very different but the same in some ways. Some tried to find cures and others found people to blame for it. They had tried to find treatments and preventions for the plague. The responses from the living were shocking but yet expected and during the time that the Black Plague hit, religion was the most powerful and the two big and common religions that got hit hardest were Christianity and Islam. The cause for this disease and start if the black death is believed to be from bacteria that lived in fleas stomachs. These fleas lived on rodents but mostly only lived on the black rat. The fleas would live on the rodent and infect it. When the rodent would die the flea would
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In the middle of the fourteenth century the Black Death was made up of three diseases, some more deadly than the other. Bubonic plague was the most common and fifty to eighty percent of the victims died. The symptoms for the bubonic disease were chills, fevers, vomiting, and racing heart beats and the person would develop inflamed swelling which could be up to as large as an egg. The pneumonic plague was more deadly but less common and infected the respiratory system. The victims of the pneumonic plague were usually killed within hours. The last plague which got into your blood and killed you no matter what was the septicemic plague. All three of the plagues resulted in agonizing and horrible deaths. (DBQ:The Black Death, …show more content…
Some Christians reacted by saying that it was the end of the world which could be believed since a lot of people were dying. They saw things that were terrible as one of the Christian people had said “Indeed, one who did not see such horribleness can be called blessed.” (DBQ:The Black Death, 2010) The Muslims were also very terrified because the people sick would spit up blood as one said “they spat blood, and the population was terrified by the multitude of the dead.”(DBQ:The Black Death, 2010) The Muslims had so many dead bodies they had to get rid of, they were transported on wooden planks, doors, ladders, and baskets. Sometimes they would use a wooden plank to carry more than just one body. They would take the bodies and put them in open trenches with thirty or more others because they were running out of places to put
In the middle of the fourteenth century the Black Death was made up of three diseases, some more deadly than the other. Bubonic plague was the most common and fifty to eighty percent of the victims died. The symptoms for the bubonic disease were chills, fevers, vomiting, and racing heart beats and the person would develop inflamed swelling which could be up to as large as an egg. The pneumonic plague was more deadly but less common and infected the respiratory system. The victims of the pneumonic plague were usually killed within hours. The last plague which got into your blood and killed you no matter what was the septicemic plague. All three of the plagues resulted in agonizing and horrible deaths. (DBQ:The Black Death, …show more content…
Some Christians reacted by saying that it was the end of the world which could be believed since a lot of people were dying. They saw things that were terrible as one of the Christian people had said “Indeed, one who did not see such horribleness can be called blessed.” (DBQ:The Black Death, 2010) The Muslims were also very terrified because the people sick would spit up blood as one said “they spat blood, and the population was terrified by the multitude of the dead.”(DBQ:The Black Death, 2010) The Muslims had so many dead bodies they had to get rid of, they were transported on wooden planks, doors, ladders, and baskets. Sometimes they would use a wooden plank to carry more than just one body. They would take the bodies and put them in open trenches with thirty or more others because they were running out of places to put