Though the Black Death certainly came as a surprise to people of the Middle Ages, considering the living-conditions of those times, and especially the almost complete lack of medical know-how it is safe to say that the plague was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Back in the fifteenth century people knew nothing about hygiene, and went for months if not years at a time without properly cleaning their body. Rotten teeth as well as layers upon layers of unwashed filth on their skin were all factors that contributed to weakening the peoples’ immune system, making them highly susceptible to any kind of infection and disease. Cities and towns were all as dirty and mucky as present-day garbage dumps, people literally threw their garbage and bodily waste right out the window, trash covered the

The plague brought on a very serious impact on European economy. Manufacturing and trading of goods, that had only began to develop after the crusades, ceased partially because millions of workers and craftsmen died thus making production of all kinds of goods come to an end, and also because in fear of letting the plague enter their homes, most kingdoms of Europe went to extreme measures not allowing any trading ships into their ports or caravans inside their town-walls. The economy suffered greatly as a result of this new trend of isolationism.

streets festering for months attracting all kinds of parasites – vermin, insects, germs and dangerous bacteria. Normal life expectancy in those days was not higher than 30-40 years and most definitely the sub-par living conditions were to blame.

Eventually after the first appearance of the plague, people began their first efforts to find some sort of remedy for the diseased. In the beginning their attempts were feeble and ineffective at all, but at least it got the medicine to slowly but surely advance. Perhaps that was one good thing to come out of this tragedy. One of the most popular phony remedies for the plague was to make the diseased person wear a toad around their neck, according to some superstition of the time; the toad would supposedly draw out the infection ridding the person of disease. Obviously this method

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