...................................................................................... The symptoms for the Bubonic Plague are in an order. First the heart beats wildly as it tries to pump blood through swollen tissues. Next your nervous system starts to collapse into itself, causing very great pain and bizarre movements of the arms and legs. Next, as death neared, your mouth would gap open and your skin would blacken from internal bleeding. The end usually would come around the fifth day.Other symptoms are high fever (between 101 and 105 degrees F), aching limbs and the vomiting of blood. In the beginning the blood is slimy and tinted. Then it becomes free-flowing and bright red. The most characteristic is the swelling of lymph nodes which also ads to the darkening of the skin. Some people even turn dark purple.Did you know that there is a cycle of the Bubonic Plague? This is how it goes.1 Fleas drink rat blood that carries bacteria 2 Bacteria multiply in flea’s gut3 Gut clogged with bacteria4 Flea bites a human and regurgitates blood into an open wound5 Human is infectedThe Bubonic Plague was used for war too. People put diseased rats or flies in other people’s water. It was also used for something else. The dead bodies of the victims of the Plague were shot at their enemies by catapult in hopes that the disease would spread.About 850 years ago Physicians were pretty strange. They recommended holding a bouquet of sweet smelling herbs and flowers up to your nose to ward off the plague. Some say this practice was an inspiration for an old nursery rhyme. You might know it. It’s called Ring a ring o’ roses.Back then it was a little different it went like this. Ring a ring o’ roses a pocket full of posies, atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down.Ring a ring of roses was said to be a rash that often signaled infection. A pocket full of posies were the flowers people carried to sweeten the air. Atishoo was...
