Treatment for Black death

Answer 1

Cures ranged from the ridiculous to the more practical, and also contained some old-wives tale prevention methods:

• Throw sweet smelling herbs onto the fire to clean the air.
• Carry pockets of sweet-smelling herbs
• Plague-proofing homes by putting glazes over southern windows to block the polluted southern wind
• Sit in a sewer so the bad air of the plague is driven off by the even worse one of the sewer.
• Drink a medicine of ten year old treacle.
• Swallow a powder of crushed emeralds.
• Bloodletting.
• Place live hen next to the boils to help draw out pestilence from the body.
• Drink a glass of your own urine to aid recovery
• No bathing, exercising, or physical intimacy was allowed during that time
• No sleeping during the daytime
• Avoid sad thoughts or thoughts of death and disease
• Victim gets washed with vinegar and rosewater
• Don't eat meat, figs or fish, but instead eat fruits, vegetables and bread
• Lance the buboes, and apply a mixture of tree resin, roots of white lilies and dried human excrement should be applied to the places where the body has been cut open.
• Clean the streets of all human and animal waste; burn all dead bodies and excrement outside the village in a large deep pit
• Pestilence medicine: Roast the shells of newly laid eggs and ground the roasted shells into a powder. Chop up leaves and petals of marigold flowers. mix egg shells and marigolds into a pot of good ale. Add treacle and warm over a fire. The patient should drink this mixture every morning and night.
• Use of religion (i.e., praying to God) to end this Black Plague once and for all
• And other things

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Answer 2

Antibiotics