The Black Death
The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasiaand peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. The bacterium Yersinia pestis, which results in several forms of plague, is believed to have been the cause. The plague created a series of religious, social and economic upheavals, which had profound effects on the course of European history. In men and women alike it first betrayed itself by the emergence of certain tumours in the groin or armpits, some of which grew as large as a common apple, others as an egg...From the two said parts of the body this deadly gavocciolo soon began to propagate and spread itself in all directions indifferently; after which the form of the malady began to change, black spots or livid making their appearance in many cases on the arm or the thigh or elsewhere, now few and large, now minute and numerous. As the gavocciolo had been and still was an infallible token of approaching death, such also were these spots on whomsoever they showed themselves
The picture shows NOT the Black death. Thus is a dry gangraen. But in the 14th and 15th of the middleage was
Plaque can cause tissie necrosis as you see here, the case was on the news and these are his original pictures according to news websites
That does 'nt be a Person with black death or Pest. Indeed there was another illness in the middleage. it was named Adonisfire.That IS a poisoning by mold mushroom ergot,which grows in wheat.
