They did not have a cure, and they tried many things, but nothing worked well enough to be used widely.People with the plague were isolated, so it would not spread. In many places imports were...
Several antidotes had to do with the diet, like a snack of fig, filbert, and rue, avoiding foods that spoiled easily like milk, fish, and meat; or if one had to eat meat it had to be fowl, lamb, or...