![]() Physicians used leeches to try to draw the poisoned blood from the afflicted, but there was little to be done, but pray. People carried posies, with the hopes that the dried flowers would keep the deadly fumes away. The main roads in and out of the city were closed. Panic, as you can imagine, was widespread. To a lesser extent, but with far deadlier consequences, victims might also contract the pneumonic plague (spread by sneezing and coughing), or even the septicaemic plague (spread through the blood, such as by a direct rat bite).įinally, the plague could no longer be hidden from the public. Victims had a one-third chance of dying within two weeks, after contracting the bubonic plague. The whispers grew louder that so-and-so’s neighbor or relative bore the marks of the bubonic plague-great black buboes (swellings in the lymph nodes, in the armpits, groin and neck). Giles, one of the poorest and dirtiest areas of the city. ![]() By early 1665, there were many suspicious deaths and rumors of bodies being carted off at night, under the veil of darkness, especially in St. ![]()
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