stories and histories SYMPTOMS OF THE BLACK DEATH OR PLAGUE, THE MALADY WHO KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DURING THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD

Symptoms of the Black DEATH or Plague, the malady who killed millions of people during the medieval period.

"Europeans were scarcely equipped for the horrible reality of the Black Death. In men and women alike, the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio wrote, at the beginning of the malady, certain swellings, either on the groin or under the armpitswaxed to the bigness of a common apple, others to the size of an egg, some more and some less, and these the vulgar named plague-boils.

Blood and pus seeped out of these strange swellings, which were followed by a host of other unpleasant symptomsfever, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, terrible aches and painsand then, in short order, death.

The Bubonic Plague attacks the lymphatic system, causing swelling in the lymph nodes. If untreated, the infection can spread to the blood or lungs.

How Did The Black Death Spread?
The Black Death was terrifyingly, indiscriminately contagious: the mere touching of the clothes, wrote Boccaccio, appeared to itself to communicate the malady to the toucher. The disease was also terrifyingly efficient. People who were perfectly healthy when they went to bed at night could be dead by morning."

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