Diseases.

__Diseases of the Middle Ages. __  Diseases and sickness were common during the Middle Ages. People would die from things as simple as the flu or leprosy which can be easily cured today. One of the major sicknesses that spread all over Europe was the __**Black Plague.**__ It swept over Europe between 1347-1352. The people were unaware that the disease was caused by blood sucking fleas that lived on rats. The disease started in central Asia and later hit Europe. "It reached Sweden by 1350 and only few areas were totally unaffected. The largest place unaffected was modern day Poland."( Diseases, 101) Bubonic Plague/Black Plague symptoms and treatments(during Medieval Times):  Another common disease was leprosy. **__Leprosy__** is a non contagious disease where your extremeties get infected and fall off. A way of trying to cure a disease was bloodletting. Letting blood flow from your body. Doctors would do this because it was believed evil demons were inside you if you were sick. These demons were going to be let out through bloodletting. The diseases were important in history because these diseases gave us examples of things that need to be cured and it showed how dirty and nasty the Middle Ages really were.
 * buboes(early symptom)
 * boils filled with puss and blood.(Found under armpits or near the groin)
 * Medieval doctors believed the Plague was caused by an infection in the air.
 * Burning sulfur (Get rid of plague)
 * Boiling herbs(To get rid of infection)

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