of medicine. So how did they respond to this? Well the first response is that of faith healing. Faith healing was the prime remedy of the Middle Ages so with…with the coming of the Black Death ...

The second was the need to convince a public accustomed to “traditional folk medicine” of the merits ... in his book Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.

which is the basis of modern medicine. The belief that miasma was responsible for the Black Death meant there were efforts to clean up towns by employing gong farmers and muckrakers, which showed ...

The Black Death peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, wiping out about 60 percent of London’s population. According to genome analysis comparing the ancient sample and a recent outbreak in ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...

Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in medicine at the University of East ... and Russia. The Black Death, the most devastating pandemic in recorded history, was a mix of bubonic, septicemic, and ...

The Black Death is set to reprise their role as the ... wild rodents while overseas,' Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in medicine at the University of East Anglia, told The Sun.