Bubonic Plague In The Elizabethan Era Essay

Is it little by surprise that the plague was the most dreaded disease in the Elizabethan era. Death is a terrible thing, especially when a person is getting executed. People died of many diseases in that era. Such as blood poisoning, and the bubonic plague which refers back to black death. It was a very violent disease to get, it was very contagious. The most dreadful punishments in this era were getting hung which lead into executions (Linda Alcin 1) .After you are half dead from getting hung they take you and cut you into squares and hang you up around the city of England .

In 1563, in London alone over 20,000 people died of diseases.The punishments that women faced if they gossiped too much was a pillory, paraded around town, and was whipped until death. In the Elizabethan Era England was split into two classes which was upper class and lower class(Phillip Stubbles 1) . The upper class was really wealthy and royal and had a lot of power to get people

executed.On the other hand the lower class was poor and not really educated. Majority of England population only lived until they were 60 years old because of the diseases back then. They even had Physicians that wasn’t really that smart back then, they didn’t have the advanced technology like we have today(MagiRos). They thought each living thing had four elements of humor, and the medication was bound what thoughts of things that wouldn’t even work. The Queen started to get sign’s of the bubonic plague,the reason why she had signs because one day she went outside and came back inside feeling terrible.Ever since that day she became sicker and sicker, one day she was so weak her servants had to come and do things for her like changing her sheets, she was so tired she couldn’t fuss back.

In the Elizabethan era between 1558 to 1603 death arrived much earlier for the majority of the lower class population. The infant mortality rate was pretty high during that time framed. Some of the children of England only lived until they were 10 years of age. In large towns of England such as London they were lots of sewers that were open in the streets, and people stuffed the sewers with garbage which lead into rodents,and fleas. The rodents, and the fleas were the one that carried different types of diseases that spread very rapidly around the big towns in England. In the community every time a bell ring from a Church it means that someone is about to die.This was known as the passing bell back then.

Elizabethans would contract the bubonic plague with their odds of surviving it.The symptoms that you would get from the bubonic plague would include high fever, bacterial infections that would go to your lungs, sometimes you will get sores all over your body and it would turn black.In 4 to 7 days you were dead if you caught this plague, and the smells were quite horrible.

The medication in the Elizabethan Era was very basic.When horrible diseases came such as the bubonic plague which is also known as the Black Death. They medication back then wasn’t strong enough to fight off the symptoms(Philip Stubbles). The Physicians in this era had no idea where the bubonic plague came from and they were very skeptical about finding a cure. The Physicians started to study patients that had the plague, studying there blood flow to see what caused this disease(Linda Alcin 1).Even though they study their patients they still couldn’t find what had caused this disease the best answer that they came up was to bleed there

harms.

In Conclusion, people did not travel a lot to big cities in the Elizabethan era because of the diseases they had. It was very common to get the bubonic plague if someone has it which would possibly lead into death(Linda Alcin).They made sure if you was poor or either homeless you could not travel to big cities in England because you might have the plague and they didn’t want to take any risk of more people getting affected in other villages by the plague.