The
Pestilence (Stage 2)
(B1)
Vinegar & Rose Water Treatment
If a person gets the disease
they should be washed with vinegar and rose water.
(B2)
Lancing the Buboes
People who catch the pestilence
have swellings on the neck, armpit and groin. We
should cut open the swellings and allow the poison to leave the body.
A mixture of tree
resin, roots of white lilies and dried human excrement should be applied
to those areas of the body that have been cut open.
(B3)
Bleeding
The pestilence must be
in the blood. We should cut open the veins leading to the heart. This
will allow the pestilence to leave the body. An ointment made of clay
and violets should be applied to those areas of the body that have
been cut open.
(B4)
Diet
We should not eat foods
that go off and smell badly like meat, cheese and fish. Instead
we should only eat bread, fruit and vegetables.
(B5)
Sanitation
I think we should clean
the streets of human and animal waste. We should put it in a
cart and bury it in a field outside the village. All bodies should
be buried in a deep pit outside the village. The clothes of the dead
should be burnt.
(B6)
Pestilence Medicine
Roast the shells of newly
laid eggs. Ground the roasted shell into a powder. Chop up the leaves
and petals of marigold flowers. Put the egg shells and marigolds into
a pot of good ale. Add treacle and warm over a fire. The patient should
drink this mixture every morning and every night.
(B7)
Witchcraft
Place a live hen next to
the swelling to draw out the pestilence from the body. To aid recovery
you should drink a glass of your own urine twice a day.
(B8)
Pest House
To stop the disease spreading
all the plague victims should be kept together. We should build a
'Pest House' outside the village. We should take it in turns to look
after the people in the 'Pest House'.
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