THE BLACK DEATH
THE EFFECTS OF THE BLACK DEATH
In the year 1347, in the southern Ukraine near the Black Sea, the native people began dying of a mysterious disease. They suffered from headaches, weakness, and staggering when they tried to walk. Lymph nodes in the groin and underarm areas begin to swell to the size of hen's eggs. These swellings were called buboes and led to the official name of their aillment, the
Bubonic Plague. These natives called the plage the pestillance and were often dead by the fourth day of contraction.