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Lesson ObjectivesThe importance of the Black Death– What were the medical ideas and practices at the time of the Black Death.

All will be able to… describe and explain the nature of the Black Death and how it spread (D)

Most will be able to… describe and explain Medieval  ideas on causes and 'cures' of the Black Death (C)

Some will be able to… assess the impact of the Black Death on attitudes to medicine and disease (A)

What is it…

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PlagueEpidemics

Get your phones out… You have a couple of minutes to come up with definitions for the words below – Write them down!

PHONES AWAY

So what was the Black Death ?• Why would an epidemic like the Black Death

travel much faster in the 21st century ?

So what was the Black Death ?• So we know that people in medieval times lived in

small villages. So epidemics of diseases didn’t usually spread over the whole country. TILL…

1348 A disease reached England that had already killed thousands of people in Europe… ABOUT …

1/3 Of the population dies in an outbreak of the

bubonic plague known as the Black Death.

1.5mWould go on and kill 1.5m out of 4m between 1348 and 1350… How

might peasants react?

T-RAT-TER

In 148# Character summarise the details of the black death.

Use page 8 to help you…

- What is it? - When was it?- Who died?

Bonus points for Bubonic Plague – Epidemic – 1348 - Buboes

Flow Chart – Rerragaen em ?

Flea drinks rat blood that

carries the bacteria.

Flea bites human,

regurgitates the blood into

to open wound.

Gut clogged with bacteria

Bacteria multiply in

the flea’s gut

Human is infected.

Create your own flow chart in your books.

What was to blame?Religion was a very important part of people’s lives because it provide explanations for so much that happened…

- Bad harvests.- Deaths of animals.- Someone becoming ill.

Why?

Why were religion and medicine so closely linked…

What have they got in common?

Doctor, Doctor…Treatments for the bubonic plague were …not very effective. Mainly because they did not know the true cause of the plague.

Task Divide the list of treatments on page 9 into…

Those aimed at curing the plague.Those aimed at preventing the plague.

EXT: Come up with your own Dr Dr joke… Please be funny…

Flagellation

Questions.• Explain why people might go to a priest rather

than a doctor?

• Why did the plague spread more rapidly in towns than in the countryside?

How…• Label your own Plague Doctor…

Plague Doctors…

- Visited victims to verify whether they were afflicted.

- Mostly unqualified, qualified doctors left the city…

- Wore a hat to show he was a doctor.- Wore a mask to protect the face.- Crystal eyes to protect eyes.- Beak stuffed with spices to purify air.- A wooden stick to push away victims.- Leather gloves to protect the hands.- Gown and boots.

Consequences

• People lost faith with the medical profession and turned back to superstitious and religious explanations of the disease.

• A third of the population died with the towns being worst hit because people lived so close together.

• People became less tolerant as they became more frightened – minority groups like the Jews were falsely blamed for the black death.

Think about who people turned to and who they didn’t…Who was worst hit…?Who did they blame?

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Poisonous fumes from Volcanoes and earthquakes.

Bad Air (Miasma) from decaying refuse, spread through the air.

An imbalance of the Four Humours.

Activities of groups of outsiders, such as strangers or witches (in Europe Jews were blamed).

Holding a piece of bread against buboes and then burying it in ground.

Fasting and praying.

Eating cool things

Carrying herbs and spices to smell.

Walking in procession to a church, saying prayers and whipping each other.

Cut open the buboes and drain the pus.

Tidying the rubbish from the streets.

Lighting a fire in the room.

Keeping the air moving by rining bells or keeping birds flying around the room.

Not letting people enter the town or village from other places or leaving the area