The victims are infectious for only the first 5 to 7 days. A quarantine of that length of time for those infected proved to be effective in stopping the transmission of the virus. The Spanish flu is an extreme case for modern diseases, showing how rapidly it can spread and how rapidly ...
fireballs or other objects such as dead sheep, cattle, or plague victims, at the castle walls or into the castle itself. This type of catapult works by twisting rope as tightly as possible so that it acts like elastic when the arm is released. ...
The Black Death(黑死病的介绍)THEBLACKDEATH Plague QUESTION1.WHYITISCALLEDTHEBLACKDEATH？THEREASONS：1.Fromsymptom：Theplagueproducesseveraldifferentsymptomsinitsvictims.Bubonic,themostcommonformoftheplague,producesfist-sizedswellings,calledbuboes,atthesiteoffleabites-usuallyinthegroin,armpits,orneck.Theswelling...
The poet and colonist Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims "were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same".[154] Elizabeth advised her commanders that the Irish, "that rude and barbarous nation", be well treated, but she or her commanders showed no ...
Doctorscutswellingsandbledblackspotsinattemptstocureplaguevictims.PlagueOrdersprohibitedchurchesfromkeepingdeadbodiesintheirbuildingsduringpublicassembliesorservices,andcamersofthedeadhadtoidentifythemselvesandcouldnotmixwiththepublic.SamuelPepys:EyewitnessAccountsInhisfamousdiary,SamueIPepys,amemberofParliament,conveyed...
It was a plague (鼠疫,黑死病 ) which spread like fire throughout Europe and England between 1348 and 1350. It has been conclusively (最终;结论性的,下结论,总结性地 ) proven (被证明了的) that from analysis of DNA from plague victims that it was caused by bacteria. The rat flea This ...
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books after failing to stop death; Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust, first with insight into treating the plague and then...
By 1352 it would wipe out a third of Europe’s population. Also known as theBlackDeath‚ theBlackPlaguestarted in China where infected rats passed the disease to fleas that quickly spread it to humans. It quickly killed the majority of victims it touched‚ usually within mere hours. What...
Victims of thePneumonic Plague, on the other hand, had no buboes but suffered severe chest pains, heavily sweated, and cough up infected blood, which could release airborne pathogens that would infect anyone nearby. Virtually no one survived the pneumonic form of the Black Death. ...
BStarting around 1348,the plague(瘟疫) hit the continents of Europe and Asia.As a result,itkilled an 1 forty million people. This disease has come to be known as the Black Death.Itsvictims suffered a horribly painful death2_ by fever and dying, blackened flesh.Although they are not certai...