Deadly symptoms



This is what a medieval doctor
might have looked like.



There were many terrible symptoms of the Black Death. Some of the early symptoms of the Black Death were headache and redness of the eyes. People might have just thought it was just a mild sickness at first. But then came severely painful stomach cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea. Red spots also covered the body as someone’s fever increased. Now the people must have known something was wrong. Another common but terrible symptom was egg sized bumps particularly where the body bent. This included places such as the elbows, arm pits, and behind the legs. These spots worsened as the sickness got stronger. Later symptoms were things such as delirium. This is whenever you go insane and you can’t think rationally.

People suffered greatly with these horrible symptoms and usually died after 7 to 9 days after the first symptoms appeared. This would have been a horrible way to die because it was long and painful. I can't imagine how hard it would have been to see so many people die from something that no one could do anything about.