Symptoms and Treatments of the Black Death

Symptoms of the Black Death

1. As you learn about each symptom of the A SUFFERER OF BUBONIC PLAGUE

Plague, draw and label that symptom on the
victim to the right. Don’t forget to give him a His name was:___________________
name … and some clothes, if you don’t
mind.
2. Complete this table about the three types of
plague:
BUBONIC SEPTICEMIC PNEUMONIC
Lymph nodes /
Part of the body it

immune
affects

system
Main Symptoms

Flea bites
How is it transmitted?

Quickly! They
How did they die?

were the
fastest to die.

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 Symptoms and Treatments of the Black Death

3. What do you remember about what people of the Middle Ages knew about the
causes of disease?

4. Which of the following do you think were really preventions or treatments for the
Black Death? Circle ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
YEP, OH NO, In your opinion, would this
THEY DID THEY treatment actually help?
THAT! DIDN’T! Explain why.

Use a sterilised needle to

draw the pus out of buboes.

Use leeches or a blade to

remove your blood.

Take Aspirin

A barber would slice open

your buboes with a knife and
fill with herbal concoctions.

Prayer

Exile, kill and persecute the

local Jewish people.

Put antiseptic lotions on the

buboes.

Breathing through posies of

flowers and herbs.

Whip yourself as punishment

for the world’s sins.

5. If you were sent back in time to the 14th century and found yourself surrounded
by the plague, what would you do to help prevent catching it?
What would you do to help treat it?
Explain your answer with evidence.

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