Working Title Ring Around The Rosy - 1948 Words

Working Title: Ring Around the Rosy Introduction Attention Getter: We all know the common childhood rhyme â€Å"Ring Around the Rosy,† what many readers do not know is that symptoms of the Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague show up in the nursery rhyme. This correlation leaves many scholars believing that the two have a sickening connection. (History.com Staff) Thesis: Although the Bubonic Plague was tragic in itself, the horrid disease has a correlation to other common diseases today, including the Zika virus, which is very prevalent in the news. Black Death Overview: There are three forms of plague currently known by Doctors, bubonic being one of them. It is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, is highly contagious. Bubonic†¦show more content†¦(History.com Staff) â€Å"Churches stopped masses, peasants halted plowing fields, merchants closed shops, taxes went uncollected.† (Woolf) England- France war halted to return in 1355 (Woolf) â€Å"lust for old women to overeating† were thoughts on how you catch it. (Woolf) Punishment from God (Woolf) women-lepers, practicing witchcraft or poisoning water supply (Woolf) â€Å"Corruption of the air due to a particular conjunction of the planets.† (Woolf) The death ships were ordered out of the harbor by the Sicilian statesman. However, the disease had already begun spreading. In five years time, the Black Death would incinerate approximately two million people. A third of Europes population (History.com Staff) Symptoms Treatment â€Å"...at the beginning of the malady, certain swelling either in the groin or under the armpits†¦ waxed to the bigness of a common apple, others to the size of an egg, some more some less, these the vulgarly named plague - boils.† Giovanni Boccaccio (History.com Staff) Blood pus would ooze from these swellings, after all, common symptoms came death. (History.com Staff) Since many believed that the plague was spread through the air, incense was common (Woolf) Isolation was very common (Woolf) How, What, Where it Spread Winter 1348 (Woolf) plague seemed to disappear, fleas went dormant in winter, the following spring; the plague returned, it killed new victims for the next 4 years, 25 million people had died