1. The Black Death

2. The Culprits

3. The Disease Cycle Human is infected!
Flea drinks rat blood that carries the bacteria.
Bacteria
multiply in
flea’s gut.
Human is infected!
Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound.
Flea’s gut clogged with bacteria.

4. The Famine of
By 1300 Europeans were farming almost all the land they could cultivate.
A population crisis developed.
Climate changes in Europe produced three years of crop failures between because of excessive rain.
As many as 15% of the peasants in some English villages died.
One consequence of starvation & poverty was susceptibility to disease.

5. Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.
The Symptoms
Bulbous
Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.

6. Lancing a Buboe

7. Medieval Art & the Plague Bring out your dead to the streets!

8. Medieval Art & the Plague An obsession with death.

9. Death Triumphant !: A Major Artistic Theme

10. Medieval Art & the Plague

11. 1347: Plague Reaches Constantinople!

13. Attempts to Stop the Plague
“Leeching”
A Doctor’s Robe

14. Attempts to Stop the Plague
Anti-Semitism ( people blamed the Jews)
“Golden Circle” obligatory badge
“Jew” hat

15. The Mortality Rate:
25,000,000 dead !!!