The Black Death

The Black Death

The Black Death was a devastating pandemic of bubonic plague that arrived in Europe in October 1347 and killed millions of people.

Being one of the busiest trading nations, the epidemic from China arrived in Europe in 1347, in Messina, Sicily.

An Italian tradesman has arrived in your town and has fallen ill. You, as a doctor, realise with horror that he has brought the Black Death into your town!

You are a very wise man and you know that it is a deadly disease. The poor sufferer has little chance to survive but you try to do the best. What would you do?

Give the patient a small quantity of crushed emeralds with water.

Give the patient a large amount of mercury.

Unfortunately, it didn' work. Your patient's condition is getting worse. He has high fever now and chills... You are going to try out a traditional method: BLOODLETTING.

Congratulations! Your patient no longer suffers from plague... Mercury killed him faster than plague.

TRY AGAIN!

Your patient feels himself extremely tired and weak after bloodletting. You should do something useful very quickly or he is going to die soon. What would you do?

Since it was believed that clean urine had medicinal properties, you bathe him in it and ask him to drink it.

Try lancing the buboes.

Congratulations! Your patient no longer suffers from plague... Lancing buboes killed him faster than plague.

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Nothing happened... except that your patient feels himself very bad. He started to vomit and he has diaorrhea now. You know that he has maximum five days left and if you don't do anything useful, he is going to be dead soon...

Suddenly you remember something...Your great-grandfather was also a physician. He had a secret recipe, which might be helpful to cure the disease. 'Where can it be? I have to find it very quickly!

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'I can't believe it! I have found the recipe but some ingredients are missing...What should I do know?' 'I am sure that there are some clues on the recipe...Oh, I have an idea! I have learnt this trick from my grandfather. Let's try it...

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Use the clues but don't forget you will need them by the end.

Clue 1

Open vials, don't be shy Just click, try and spy.

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Clue 2

Reading first and acting later,drawers reveal letter by letter.

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The Black Death

Quiz

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QUESTION 01

How many major pandemics have occured in human history?

three

two

quite a lot

QUESTION 02

The first outbreak of the pandemic on record

the Great PLague of London

was the Black Death

was the Plague of Justinian

QUESTION 03

Outbreaks began in

Egypt

the 5th century

Europe

QUESTION 04

Accumulation of waste

created unsanitary living conditions.

made way for urbanization.

is responsible for crowded neighbourhoods.

QUESTION 05

The second pandemic was in

A.D. 1348

the 13th century

the 16th century

QUESTION 06

The second plague pandemic

killed about a third of Europe's population

killed about a third of China's population

wiped out the Middle East's population

QUESTION 07

Lack of medical knowledge

increased international trade.

helped to stop the spread of the disease.

helped the transmission of the disease.

QUESTION 08

The third pandemic broke out

in China.

in northwest India.

in Manchuria.

QUESTION 09

Kitasato Shibasaburo and Alexandre Yersin discovered the bacteria

in 1894.

in the 16th century.

in 1904.

QUESTION 10

Due the crucial advancements in science and public health

the plague is almost thing of the past.

the plague was exported throughout the globe.

the plague is unstoppable.

Clue:

vinegar

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Question 1

Where did the outbreak origionally start?

in the 14th century

in Central Asia

in Europe

Question 2

Why is the bubonic plague called 'the Black Death'?

because the colour of death is black

because the buboes turn black

because the blood turns black

Question 3

How many people died in Europe due to the plague?

about 225 million people

about 75 million people

about 150 million people

Question 4

The disease was carried by...

only rats

rats and fleas

only fleas

Question 5

People in the 14th century thought that the plauge was caused by...

breathing in dirty air

a bacteria called Yersinia pestis

a virus

Question 6

A ... cross was marked on the door of the house that the people inside had plague.

white

red

black

Question 7

When was the Great Plague of London?

in the 14th century

in 1350

in 1665

Question 8

Where did the ship from Gascony dock?

in Constantinople

in Central Asia

in Weymouth

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Clue:

the name of the medicine

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with capital letters and spaces

Congratulations!

The Four Thieves Vinegar saved the life of your patient!