In one letter from Erasmus of Rotterdam, he states that the plague is due to the filth in the streets. He is living in England, one of the places infected with the plague. (Doc. 2) A german physician wrote about another reason for the sickness in his book The Deceptions of Demons. He said that a reason for the plague spreading is because people at Casale in western Lombardy coated the town gates with a special ointment. Anyone who touched the gates was infected. (Doc. 4) Because he is a physician, he is higher up in the social hierarchy and may have been looking for a way to blame it on the lower classes. Another physician remarked that the plague was because God was angry with them and that is why no ordinary cures worked. (Doc.
In one letter from Erasmus of Rotterdam, he states that the plague is due to the filth in the streets. He is living in England, one of the places infected with the plague. (Doc. 2) A german physician wrote about another reason for the sickness in his book The Deceptions of Demons. He said that a reason for the plague spreading is because people at Casale in western Lombardy coated the town gates with a special ointment. Anyone who touched the gates was infected. (Doc. 4) Because he is a physician, he is higher up in the social hierarchy and may have been looking for a way to blame it on the lower classes. Another physician remarked that the plague was because God was angry with them and that is why no ordinary cures worked. (Doc.