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Plague – widespread disease causing large numbers of deaths

Plague – widespread disease causing large numbers of deaths Today – known as a epidemic Pandemic- epidemic covering large area of land “Black Death” – pandemic of a disease called plague. How and where it all began. Trade port Caffa is attacked by the Tartar army –

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Plague – widespread disease causing large numbers of deaths

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  1. Plague – widespread disease causing large numbers of deaths Today – known as a epidemic Pandemic- epidemic covering large area of land “Black Death” – pandemic of a disease called plague

  2. How and where it all began Trade port Caffa is attacked by the Tartar army – port controlled by merchants from Genoa - 1346

  3. Biological Warfare- After a year of fighting – plague broke out in the Tartar army Tartar king before giving up began to catapult infected bodies over the walls of Caffa.

  4. City fell ill Genoese merchants fled Plague carried to Europe

  5. Speed of the Plague 1347- Sicily Spring 1348 – Paris Fall 1349 - London

  6. What was the disease? Bacillus – microbe passed from flea, to rat to man Rodents move freely among humans Fleas jump to man Infect humans

  7. Flea preferred rat blood – will bite warm blooded animals – man When rats die out those felt they then became dangerous to man Man and rats lived in close proximity - cities

  8. Flea regurgitates the blood from the rodent into a human and infecting the human

  9. Symptoms – High fever Aching limbs Vomiting of blood Swelling of lymph nodes neck, armpits, groin

  10. Swelling continues and eventually burst Death follows Three - four days Terrible pain

  11. Grotesque appearance

  12. Forms of the disease Septicemia- attacks the blood Pneumonic – attacks the lungs transmitted through the air Caused by man to man – breathed in by others Both nearly 100% fatal

  13. Perfect Conditions- Small villages Little sanitation Man and animals in one shelter Rarely washed Windowless thatched wooded huts

  14. Early deaths common- Most children died by age 6 Average lifespan - 35 Attitude – hope for better after-life

  15. Official Reaction God’s wrath Cities hardest hit Houses walled up Isolated the healthy Quarantine and isolation

  16. Dead left beside door Village priests Mass graves Set on fire

  17. Medicine and Magic Best advice- go quickly and far away Few doctors cared for sick Hand me down cures – part Religion, astrology, magic and common sense

  18. Ignorant- Stars had battled the sun over India – result – “Great Sea” nearly dried out Rotting fish produced poisonous vapors Giant fires started to straighten out atmospheric disturbance

  19. Avoid poultry waterfowl pork old beef fat meats fish too much exercise no cooking with rainwater

  20. Medical Practices- Bleeding and purging Cupping

  21. Medical Measures Nothing worked Other methods for cures Transmitted by air smell of dead and dying Scents

  22. Flagellants People doing public penance “Whipping marches” were orderly and directed towards a shrine Lasted 33 days

  23. Felt they were above Church and state 1349- Bill issued- denounced

  24. Looking for a scapegoat- Jews Killers of Christ Accused of kidnapping and killing Christian children Jews- had both wealth and education Killing them could rid a lord of creditors

  25. Population Loss 25 million died 1347 – 1350 Europe one third of it’s population Two year period 1 -3 died Venice – 60% in 18 months 500 – 600 per day

  26. Hardest Hit Doctors Clergy Cities Rural areas

  27. Economic Disruptions - Banking Debtors died – creditors could not collect Money for investments Construction stopped Start of capitalism

  28. Economic Disruptions - Guilds Lost craftsmen Machinery in disrepair Specialists needed Higher wages

  29. Labor Shortage Wages rose Oversupply of goods prices fell Standard of living rose England – 200 years to recover loss

  30. Serfs Fewer of ‘em Demands met Rebellions

  31. Cultural Effects - Education Fewer teachers Schools closed Education stopped

  32. Power of the Church People let down Questioned authority No longer infallible

  33. Art – tombs Lord and lady sword, shield Sculptures ornate likeness View of man changes

  34. Tone of despair Image of pain, suffering Man is mortal

  35. The Plague in song story and oils

  36. Piped Piper of Hamlin

  37. Victory of Death – Pieter Breugel

  38. Mask of the Red Death

  39. “Ring ‘round the Poise”

  40. Simple child’s rhyme Ring around the rosies – pink rash A pocked full of posies – perfumed flowers Achoo, Achoo – sneezing brought on by feverish chills We all fall down - dead

  41. The 7th Seal

  42. The End – Thanks for the chance to be here today

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