Old Saint Paul's :a tale of the plague and the fire. The Great Plague killed between 75,000 and 100,000 of London’s rapidly expanding population of about 460,000.
The plague doctor 1665 series#
Want to experience what it was like to live during the Great Plague of London without needing to rub poop in your sores? Visit the London Dungeon for this and 18 other ‘orrible shows. The Great Plague of London, 1665 The Great Plague of London in 1665 was the last in a long series of plague epidemics that first began in London in June 1499.
The plague doctor 1665 full#
If the chicken fell ill, one would wash it and repeat the process until nursed to full health The plague first entered Pepys’ consciousness enough to warrant a diary entry on April 30, 1665: Great fears of the Sickenesse here in the City, he wrote, it being said that two or. A live hen’s bottom was shaved and strapped to swollen lymph nodes.
Some doctors even recommended a glass of the stuff…down the hatch! So the Plague defied all medicines the very physicians were seized with it, with their preservatives. This short film of 9 minutes gives some interesting insights about medicine during the time of the plague. London during the last great visitation in 1665. Multiple baths in urine were encouraged per day. Physician Robert Merivel (Robert Downey, Jr.), a former student of William Harvey, has to face the Great Plague of London of 1665-1666. Wellcome Collection (CC BY) Image source for Nine images of the plague in London. The last major outbreak in London was 16651666, just before the Great Fire of London. Epidemics also hit Italy, Holland and England.
Bottom’s up!Ĭan’t afford emeralds? This was another popular method for relieving the symptoms of the plague. A plague doctor would come to inspect suspected cases of plague and isolate the infected and their families in their homes. Got some spare emeralds lying around? These precious stones were ground to a fine powder in a trusty pestle and mortar, and then mixed with a liquid. Then the sores were bandaged tightly to keep the concoction inside. Some took blood-letting a bit further by cutting open the sores and then smearing the sores with a mixture of tree resins, flower roots and human POO.
Why? It was believed that bursting buboes by letting blood gave sufferers a better chance of survival. If you have a few pennies spare, leeches are ideal for a spot of blood-letting. But Lord, how empty the streets are, and melancholy, citizen Samuel Pepys observed. Streets were uncharacteristically vacant of its citizens, the unholy plague on the minds of all. So it’ll be my pleasure to share the DELIGHTFUL treatments that Doctors gave to poor sick Londoners. In 1665, the city of London did not bustle with its usual activity. I bet you twisted lot have been dyin’ to find out about the crazy cures for the Great Plague of 1665. It’s the Dungeon Keeper, ‘ere and I’ve great secrets to share far better than any old nursery rhyme. “Ring – a – ring of roses, a pocketful of posies, Atischo, Atischo, We all fall DOWN.”
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