The Effects Of The Bubonic Plague

A great epidemic spread across the world this unfortunate disease had many names, Yersinia pestis, the Black Death, the Pestilence and lastly the Bubonic plague. One of the reasons why this disease was called the bubonic plague was because a bubo is often a swollen lymph node. The symptoms of this plague varied, when it entered in the body as Frankforter states “A bubo is a swollen, infected lymph node, usually in the groin or armpit. Plague can rupture blood vessels, causing bleeding from bloodily orifices and subcutaneous bleeding that turns the skin black with bruised blotches. It can also infect the lungs and assume a form spread by coughs and sneezes” (Frankforter, pg. 318).
This fatal disease was unlike no other the medieval people were astonished at these signs of death, the plague will take root and take you away from this world within the …show more content…
Others turned away from their faith and lastly the medieval Europeans lost their humanity. Seeing everyone you know die, takes a toll on you of course. Your loved ones, friends, neighbors, seeing everyone you know get infected and that there is not a thing you can do to save yourselves is a pretty daunting fact. “Medieval people were baffled. They knew that the pestilence was infectious, but they did not know how it spread. There were no effective treatments for it, and it was almost always fatal. There seemed to be no logic to its behavior.” (Frankforter, pg. 319). Some people took to living to the fullest, making sure the days they had left counted. They were careless and behaved like they had no future and today was all that they had “they began to behave as if every day were the day of their certain death, and they did no work to provide for their future needs by caring for their fields or their animals, but rather consumed everything they owned.”