The medieval period was one of social upheaval, and there is a list of villages, once part of local landscapes across the ...

The disease—once known as the “black death”—killed at least ... bubonic plague if the patient has flu-like symptoms and painful swollen buboes. Septicemic and pneumonic plague often ...

The pandemic of bubonic plague—later dubbed the Black ... of the first symptoms of plague to appear are painful, swollen lymph nodes at the neck, groin, and armpit known as “buboes,” which ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged ... the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes.

Some doctors burst the buboes of patients with bubonic plague. There is some evidence that this may have helped increase chances of survival. To try and stop the spread of Black Death, fines were ...

Often ships would carry the black rats, taking them (and their fleas) to new cities and countries. Painful swellings called buboes ... plague. Pneumonic plague affects the lungs. Its main symptoms ...