“Ring O’roses...pocket Full Of Posies...a Tishoo, A Tishoo...we All Fall Down”,

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Term Paper Title	“Ring O’roses...pocket Full Of Posies...a Tishoo, A Tishoo...we All Fall Down”,
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     “Ring o’roses...pocket full of posies...a tishoo, a tishoo...we all fall down”, a
harmless children’s playground rhyming game.  But this game, historians believe had it’s
deadly beginnings in the Middle Ages.  They believe that ring o’roses signified the red
rash, pocket full of posies signified the carrying of flowers to ward off the disease, a
tishoo...a tishoo described the unrelenting sneezing, and we all fall down was death.  This
deadly disease was the Bubonic Plague or otherwise known as the Black Death.  The
Bubonic Plague was responsible for killing, forty percent of Europe’s population in four
years ( Day 25).  Could this happen today?  We must examine the history of the Black
Death and the people it affected to protect us from future catastrophic diseases.
     There was many symtoms when you got the plague. When diagnose with the plague
you only have 3-5 days to live.  The most common systoms of the plague are swollen
lymph; nodes, headaches, shaking, chills and a fever.  Other symtoms are a white coating
around your tounge, rapid pulse, slurred speech, confusion, fatigue, and a blackish lump
will usually form around were the flea  has bitten you(Altman)
     The doctors had a special uniform to help prevent them from attractng space the
disease, it made them look like a bird.  It was a long gown with golves, a mask that look
like a bird’s face and the eyes were red crytal eye piece so the doctor could not see the
person directly because, he thought he would get the plague.  The beak was filled herbs
and perfumes so the doctor did not have to smell the decaying body (History Channel).
     In the Middle Ages there were many bizzare treatments.  Some of the doctor
expiermented, they told the patients to bath and drink thier own urine.  They tried leeches,
dried toads, and lizards to suck the poison out of the bodie.  They put pigeon blood on the
forehead of the body in hope that the fever would go down.  One french physician Guy de
Chualic sliced open the body and took out the swollen lymph node and replaced it with red
hot pokers(Nancy Day, 26).  They also swallowd pus from other black plague victims.
Pope Clement was so afraid of catching flag he sat between a fire for two weeks.  Some
people applied onions to the sores.  They were not allowed to take showers.  The people
with the plague always had to have their windows closed becuase they believed that it
would escape the room(History Channel)
     The Black Death was carried by a flea the size of a letter...

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