Weird Plague 'Cures' (The Black Death)

[Nick Moser]

The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and groins of victims, decimated the population of Europe during the Middle Ages, from 1347 to 1351. As the plague's death toll increased and people continued to be struck down by the disease throughout Europe and entire families were being wiped out, plague doctors began to get desperate and creative with so-called plague “cures.” These are some of those ‘cures’

 

[Nick Moser]

I thought the flagellant one was interesting. Today you find that flogging and mock crucifixions are popular in the Philippines and some Catholics in Spain and Mexico still practice flogging. Also
Unrelated practices exist in non-Roman Catholic traditions, including actual flagellation amongst some Shiites (commemorating the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali).

Another unrelated thing is I heard about Russian monks covering themselves with heavy iron chains

 

[Heavenhome]

The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and groins of victims, decimated the population of Europe during the Middle Ages, from 1347 to 1351. As the plague's death toll increased and people continued to be struck down by the disease throughout Europe and entire families were being wiped out, plague doctors began to get desperate and creative with so-called plague “cures.” These are some of those ‘cures’

Those poor people, the "cures" were horrific and by then they probably felt like they would be better off dead.

 

[packermann]

There is a great response here to an atheist when he says that science has refuted religion.

Science does not always get it right. It were not the priests who said to rub a rooster's behind to cure the plague sore. It were the medical doctors. It were not clergymen who said to bathe in and even drink urine. It were doctors. Scientism is the blind leap faith that science will eventually have all the answers for us. It is idolizing science. But science has been wrong in the past, it is probably wrong about some things now, and will be wrong about some things in the future.

 

[Nick Moser]

There is a great response here to an atheist when he says that science has refuted religion.

Science does not always get it right. It were not the priests who said to rub a rooster's behind to cure the plague sore. It were the medical doctors. It were not clergymen who said to bathe in and even drink urine. It were doctors. Scientism is the blind leap faith that science will eventually have all the answers for us. It is idolizing science. But science has been wrong in the past, it is probably wrong about some things now, and will be wrong about some things in the future.

And the Salem Witch Trials were started by a doctor and ended by a priest

 

[mindlight]

The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and groins of victims, decimated the population of Europe during the Middle Ages, from 1347 to 1351. As the plague's death toll increased and people continued to be struck down by the disease throughout Europe and entire families were being wiped out, plague doctors began to get desperate and creative with so-called plague “cures.” These are some of those ‘cures’

Interesting topic. But not sure anyone ever found a cure till the discovery of Penicillin, antibiotics et al. The only thing they did that worked was enforcing strict quarantines. I notice that we are still doing that today with the current Viral Pandemic as the cure is still pending today also.