Treatments for the Plague
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According to this BBC publication the medieval plague treatments included:
- cooked onions
- ten-year-old treacle
- arsenic
- crushed emeralds
- sitting in the sewers
- sitting in a room between two enormous fires
- fumigating your house with herbs
- autoflagellation
- bursting the buboes
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