Tuesday, May 17, 2011

What were the Symptoms of Black Death?

WOW, the symptoms were the WORST part of it all.The people who had the Black Death developed mumps under the arm and on the groin. The most common symptom was the BLACK bruises. This is how the Black Death got its name. Along with the bruises your tongue would turn black. Also, aches, chills, hemorrhaging under the skin and collapse of the nervous system weer also common. Hemorrhaging means excessive bleeding with out a case usually on eyes. The failure of the  nervous system caused bizarre dance like twitching movements.
     A lot of victims developed painful swelling of the lympnodes. Fever, exhaustion and a horrible smell were the last symptoms before death arrived. Decaying of the body also occurred, but the worst part was that you weren't even dead when this occurred. So it was like you were dying alive. Imagine suffering for a week with all of these horrible things happening to you. No matter what you tried to do to lessen the  pain you just couldn't stop it. Lympnodes grew to the size of eggs and mumps grew to the size of oranges.
  

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