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Ring around the Rosy

Ring around the Rosy. The Black Death. 1347 - 1351. Epidemic is an outbreak that spreads quickly and affects a large # of people. The Black Plague was an Epidemic. The Culprits. Bacteria. Fleas. Rats. The Symptoms. Bulbous. Septicemia Form: almost 100% mortality rate.

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Ring around the Rosy

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  1. Ring around the Rosy

  2. The Black Death 1347 - 1351

  3. Epidemic is an outbreak that spreads quickly and affects a large # of people The Black Plague was an Epidemic

  4. The Culprits Bacteria Fleas Rats

  5. The Symptoms Bulbous Septicemia Form:almost 100% mortality rate.

  6. From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411

  7. The Disease Cycle Flea drinks rat blood that carries the bacteria. Bacteria multiply in flea’s gut. Rat eats dead body Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound. Human is infected!

  8. Bring out your Dead!

  9. Medieval Art & the Plague

  10. Medieval Art & the Plague Bring out your dead!

  11. Medieval Art & the Plague An obsession with death.

  12. Boccaccio in The Decameron The victims ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors.

  13. Attempts to Stop the Plague “Leeching” A Doctor’s Robe

  14. Lancing a Buboe

  15. Attempts to Stop the Plague Flagellanti:Self-inflicted “penance” for our sins!

  16. Attempts to Stop the Plague Pogroms against the Jews “Golden Circle” obligatory badge

  17. Death Triumphant !:A Major Artistic Theme

  18. A Little Macabre Ditty “A sickly season,” the merchant said,“The town I left was filled with dead,and everywhere these queer red fliescrawled upon the corpses’ eyes,eating them away.”“Fair make you sick,” the merchant said,“They crawled upon the wine and bread.Pale priests with oil and books,bulging eyes and crazy looks,dropping like the flies.”

  19. A Little Macabre Ditty (2) “I had to laugh,” the merchant said,“The doctors purged, and dosed, and bled;“And proved through solemn disputation“The cause lay in some constellation.“Then they began to die.”“First they sneezed,” the merchant said,“And then they turned the brightest red,Begged for water, then fell back.With bulging eyes and face turned black,they waited for the flies.”

  20. A Little Macabre Ditty (3) “I came away,” the merchant said,“You can’t do business with the dead.“So I’ve come here to ply my trade.“You’ll find this to be a fine brocade…” And then he sneezed……….!

  21. About 35 Million Chinese died About 7,000 dead a day in Cairo 1/3 of the European population dead Effects

  22. The Mortality Rate 35% - 70% 25,000,000 dead !!!

  23. What were thepolitical,economic,and social effectsof the Black Death??

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