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Back then they did not have huge hospitals with all the technology we have today. So many people who either tended to the ill or were anywhere in the vicinity more than likely caught the Black Plague or other bad diseases. It was much easier to catch disease back then from the living conditions. Very little was known about hygiene in 17th-century England. People were not aware that disease was spread by germs which thrived on dirt. They did not wash their hands before eating or doing anything, so diseases could spread quickly. People dreaded catching malaria, which they thought came from a poisonous gas called ‘miasma’ from sewers and cesspits. (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)

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According to Medicinenet.com some people didn't even realize they had The Black Death or Black Plague until days after they had caught it. The signs and symptoms of plague generally develop between two and seven days after a person acquires the infection. Symptoms and signs depend on the type of plague. The Black Death affects the lymph nodes. Within a week of being infected people would start seeing symptoms of the flu, such as a headache or fever.

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Some doctors used leeches as a cure to disease. Leeches were used for thousands of years to reduce blood pressure and cleanse the blood. If a leech is placed on skin it will consume up to four times its weight. This includes all the toxins and disease that is within the blood it is eating. While the leech eats is releases a chemical called hirudin, which prevents blood clots. Medicine improved when we started treating soldiers and sailors in the field. To treat a wound they usually poured boiling oil on it, they then found that putting lotion made from egg yolk, oil from roses and turpentine.

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It's important to know about past illnesses especially the Black Death. It killed so many people back in the 16th and 17th century. According to "Johanna Bisiar, 'The Elizabethan era was a time of turbulence. Medicine was still in its infancy, but it was faced with countless pandemics and endemics such as the Black Death, which they lacked the knowledge of to treat'". During the Elizabethan Era only men could be physicians. If a woman was a healer of some type she would be accused of using witchcraft. In this Era England was lacking a proper medical intuition, so all the best physicians went over seas to France and Italy. And the ones that stayed attended to the rich. so basically if you were not rich or royalty you did not see a good physician.

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This inquiry is going to explain the medical practices back in the 16th and 17th century and all the disease that came about.

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Why disease was so devastating back then

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Why disease was so devastating back then

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The Black Death is a horrific disease that did not have a cure.  Most people think the Black Plague was a bacterial strain of Yersinia pestis. A growing minority of scholars think we have misdiagnosed the disease, and that it was actually anthrax or some mutation of cattle murrain. It's also possible the Black Plague might not have been a single disease at all, but a combination of several at once or a series of different ones over many decades. This disease was carried around by fleas on rats mainly ("Black Death")