Drinking vinegar eating crushed minerals rocks arsenic a poison mercury a poisonous metal or even tenyearold treacle a sweet syrup Sitting close to a fire or in a sewer to drive out the fever or ID: 780241
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Rubbing onions, herbs or a chopped up snake (if you have one) on the boils or cutting up a pigeon and rubbing it over an infected body (the body of somebody who has the Black Death).
Slide2Drinking vinegar, eating crushed minerals (rocks), arsenic (a poison), mercury (a poisonous metal) or even ten-year-old treacle (a sweet syrup)!
Slide3Sitting close to a fire or in a sewer to drive out the fever, or making the house smell nice with sweet smelling herb to drive out the bad air.
Slide4People who believed God was punishing them for their sins (bad things they had done), went on processions whipping their bare bodies to show they were sorry.
Slide5Cut open the swellings (buboes) to let the disease (the Black Death) leave the body.
Put a mixture of tree resin (sap), roots of white lilies and dried human sewage on to the wounds.
Slide6Stop eating food that goes off (bad) easily like meat, cheese and fish. Instead eat bread fruit and vegetables.
Slide7Clean the streets of all animal and human sewage. Take it all on a cart to a field and burn it there. Bury bodies in deep pits and burn their clothes.