The Black Death In Eruope APA Format

Knox (page 15) states that the population losses were staggering, between1347 and 150 nearly 1 to of 3 people where gone. Venetian records stated that the death rates escalated close to 500-600 deaths a day, 60% of Venice’s population was gone.

As with medical professions the clergy suffered great losses as well. Theirs was an occupational hazard; entering the home of the sick, doctors were at greater risk of catching the illness themselves. The clergy had to give the dieing their last rights and preside over the burials, this made for their demise.

As indicated by Knox (page12) those who were learned hade some

“ In the year of the Lord 1348 the was a great pestilence in the city of Florence. It was of such fury and so tempestuous that in houses, which it took, holds previously healthy servants who took care of the ill died of the same illness. Almost none of the ill survived the fourth day. Neither physicians nor medicines were effective. Whether because these illnesses were previously unknown or because physician had not previously studied them, there seemed to be no cure.”(Coppo, rubric 643, the Florentine chronicle)

In Europe and the Middle East, local plague outbreaks would recur every few years, keeping human populations in check and resulting in depopulation. It took Europe two centuries to return to the population level of the mid-14th Century. Incredibly, this disaster had some positive environmental effects. The depopulation caused the abandonment of much farmland. This resulted in its return to the fields to nature. The severe depopulation was a major contributing factor to many social and economic changes in Europe, an example of this is deterioration of manorial feudalism.

Melissa Snell (1998-2001) said that the symptoms started with a headache, then chills and fever set in and in days the swelling of the lymph glands began to swell. This is because the bacteria attacked the glands and eventually according to Knox (page 5) they would eventually burst causing great pain then death. The flea transmitted the bacterium, when the insect would bit the host, the flea would then regurgitate the bacteria into the wound thus passing it to the person. Snell states that the glands located in the groin, armpits and neck would turn black, giving the Black Death its name, after bursting the area would ooze with puss and blood, the victim would being to bleed internally, the blood would puddle under the sick causing black spots to appear all over the body. Blood also showed in the person urine and stool. The death was swift yet extremely pain full.It was possible for the victim to pass the pneumonic plague to the healthy by sneezing the bacteria, thus inf

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