Posted on 03/04/2020 12:15:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
Nah...it was the bird-shaped masks with the long beaks the medieval doctors wore that did the trick!
and lots of leeches!
one you drop in your codpiece & one you let dissolve in your mouth!
winter arrived before everyone was dead.
First morons who suggest throwing Jews down a well DOESN’T GET THE VACCINE coming from Israel.
I remember that episode of Blackadder.
One of the better ones!
The one with the witch hunter?
No. It’s the one where he falls in love with a girl called Bob. Who actually turns out to be Kate. And then Lord Flash heart steals her at the end of the episode.
They buried them in plague pits, and covered the bodies in lime.
The Great Fire of London in 1666 was looked upon as a chance to cleanse London of the plague once and for all, and an opportunity to redesign the city.
Here’s the scene, though the picture quality is poor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3D6Ecs7VhQ
Wasn’t Old St. Paul’s Cathedral lost in that fire?
No the one that was a spoof of Shakespeare’s boy dressed as girl mistaken identity comic techniques.
Mr B has a new servant who is actually a girl dressed as a male teen. Mr B is strangely attracted to him/her.
The actress had a similar role in the fourth season.
YES!
I’m likely here in the US because of the Great Plague Of London in 1666. My 11th great grandfather was orphaned by plague as a teen. His father was an apothecary, and he was an apprentice. He “apprenticed out” or in other words indentured himself to pay for his passage, and went to Maryland. I’m not aware that he was ever an apothecary there himself, but the Palatinate of Maryland of that era was in a constant state of upheaval itself.
Yes it was. Like Notre Dame, it had a lead roof, and the heat from the melting lead ignited the inside of the church.
"LONDON Several teams of scientists around the world have, for some time, been studying the possibility that a genetic mutation perpetuated by the organism responsible for bubonic plague, or the Black Death, in the Middle Ages - Yersinia pestis - might give people now carrying the mutation increased resistance to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) compared to non-carriers. New research has thrown doubt on the micro-organism that was thought to have caused the Black Death, but the link to HIV resistance seems to remain.
Sue Scott and Chris Duncan from the University of Liverpool have suggested that the bacterium Y. pestis — held to be the causative organism for bubonic plague since the 19th century — may not have been responsible for the epidemic after all. In their book, 'Biology of Plagues' (Cambridge University Press, 2001) they proposed that the culprit was most likely a filovirus, similar to the Ebola virus. This theory is based on evidence that emerged after sifting through old parish records of the many towns affected by the plague and then tracking how the disease spread throughout Britain and Europe...." (SNIP)
"....Although the potential cause of the Black Death might have changed, researchers in the field still suspect that exposure to it may have passed on resistance to HIV. Since the CCR5 mutation provides protection against the entry of a virus, there's good reason to believe that what caused the Black Death was also viral, and targeted the same cells as HIV," concluded Scott."
The CCR5 mutation--could it provide some protection against coronavirus for Descendents of Northern Europeans?
Thanks! From the FRchives:
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