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Bubonic Plague
Title: Bubonic Plague
Category: History
Details: Words: 1408 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Bubonic Plague
THE BUBONIC PLAGUE
Plague, was a term that was used in the Middle Ages to describe all fatal epidemic diseases, but now it is only applied to an infectious, contagious disease of rodents and humans. In humans, plague occurs in three forms: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague. The best known form is the bubonic plague and it is named after buboes, or enlarged, inflamed lymph nodes, which are characteristics of the plague in …showed first 75 words of 1408 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1408 total…while others were accused of killing their patients for money, or charging outrageous fees. The doctors believed that these accusations were based on resentment.
The doctors also thought it was the rats tail which were the cause of the plague but they still did not have solid preventive measures. The doctors even suggested that standing over the latrine with an empty stomach and smelling it for hours was a good remedy to cure the plague.
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