HIST 1500Y Lecture 3: HIST 1501H - Lecture #3
19 Oct 2020
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10 days that shook the world: terror in history. The plague: 1 disease but 3 primary manifestation/forms depending on the entry point of the infection. Bubonic plague: primary lymphatic system, the most common and most survivable of the plague, attaching the lymphatic system, 7 . 10 days to die, 60% mortality: symptoms chills, high fever, severe body aches, muscle cramps, swelling of lymph nodes (buboes) Secondary septicemia and/or pneumonia skin discoloration, vomiting of blood, cough, intestinal symptoms, gangrene, black spots on the skin (lenticulae), depression, seizures, delirium, coma. If symptomatic abdominal pain, blood under the skin, bleeding from mouth, nose or rectum, nausea, vomiting, trouble breathing, swollen lymph notes, low blood pressure, gangrene, shock. The controversy: primary sources reported varied and seemingly contradictory symptoms, modes of contagion, the problems of high virulence. Propositions: not the modern bubonic plague but now extinct disease, a virulent viral disease, such as ebola, the anthrax theory, the ergotism theory.
