King Charles does not have God's favor
Plagues always come after a coronation
Cutting patients to bleed them for treatment
Fever caused by unbalanced body humors
Unqualified searchers and doctors
Searchers who were poor and would take bribes
Houses boarded up with families inside
Red cross on the doors of infected houses
The Black Death killed 25 million people or 1/3 of Europe's population
The Great Plague killed 15% of London's population
The Black Death shook religious faith
Many landowners had trouble finding peasants to work after the Black Death
Peasants shopped around for best pay because labor was in demand
The rise of capitalism after the Black Death
John Graunt collected the Bills of Mortality and saw patterns in reported deaths
The Bills of Mortality showed that there was a plague every 20 years in London
The Bills of Mortality showed that there were SICKLY YEARS right before a plague
The theory that the increase in odd sicknesses could predict a plague
Families wanted to hide plague as a cause of death
The Spanish Flu might have been prevented if Graunt's theory had been applied
Many people left London and streets were empty
Theory that the plague came from infected fleas on imported cotton bales
Burning of herbs and spices with vinegar
Chewing and smoking tobacco
Heat used to make a patient sweat
Smothering a chicken in buboes
Wagons collected dead bodies
Fever, headaches, chills, vomiting, exhaustion
People returned to London
