The doctors had to come up with cures for the bubonic plague because it became too deadly, the most useful cures they made are bloodletting, mixing and using natural remedies and religious interpretations. The purpose of writing about this topic is to show and educate about the most used bubonic plague cures. Bloodletting was performed with several blades and made a set of cuts from the neck down to the forearm. As for the natural resources, anything was used as a cure, from animals to plants and even human waste. Some people didn’t want to or couldn’t use any other cure than praying to God that they would survive, while others hurt themselves because they thought that getting sick is God’s anger towards them.
Bloodletting was used by around everyone in the middle ages, especially when the Bubonic plague started. Even barbers started offering various amounts of services which included bloodletting. However, the government and churches disapproved of this treatment and wanted it to stop badly, but the people didn’t listen and continued getting the treatment done. It was a very painful process, it was performed with multiple blades as said before and delivered a set of parallel cuts that healed over time. It started becoming a popular treatment in Europe and later spread all around the world. Not only was it dangerous but it also was a big risk of excessive blood loss, a drop in blood pressure and even cardiac arrest.
Now for the natural remedies, they used the most random techniques to try and at least cure the Bubonic plague. One of the cures was rubbing onions, herbs or a chopped up snake on the buboes or cutting a pigeon and rubbing it over someone’s body. Another cure is drinking pure vinegar, eating crushed minerals, mercury, and even ten-year-old treacle. The weirdest one yet is that they would smear human waste on their open buboes because the smell would open up the buboes. One of the simplest ones was sitting close to a fire or in a sewer to drive out the fever, or putting herbs in your house to purify it.
Lastly, for the religious interpretations, some people kept praying to God every day hoping to get better and got nowhere from it but others just believed that getting sick is God’s punishment for his anger towards them. The people who would believe that it was God’s punishment would hurt themselves in severe ways. Some people took the religious interpretations thing a little far and decided that the best cure for the plague was to murder all Jews. When the plague spread to the middle east, it was unfair for the Muslims who lived there, they had to sit back and deal with it because that’s what their God would want them to do.
To conclude, the doctors came up with some beneficial cures which were used by the majority of the people who were sick or affected by the plague. The cures are bloodletting, mixing and using natural resources and religious interpretations. Those cures saved many people’s lives in the past and were by far the best-used cures.
