What kind of diseases were going around during the time of the Salem Witch Trials?
I would like to know the kind of diseases that one might have suffered during the Salem Witch Trials. Description of the disease would be very much appreciated.
- BeerLover
STD's
- Xuan T
the black plague, or the bubonic plague. it was indirectly spread by the Mongols when they conquered like half of Asia. When the plague came around, it killed one third of Europe and 'witches' were thought to be the cause of the plagues and deaths.
- SAMMY
one thing that has been hypothesized, as far as the "witches" themselves, is that there was a cause for the women to have hallucinations and act strangely other than "witchery/witchcraft"-- ergot poisoning.
Rye and rye bread (popular basic in the diet at the time) is prone to a fungus that when ingested can cause all sorts of problems, including hallucinations and convulsions.
check out the site listed below
http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/history/ergot.htm
- Louise C
Of the most serious diseases, typhus was common at this time. Sufferes would have a high fever, headaches, and dizziness. smallpox was another deadly disease that ravaged the colonies, an outbreak in the 1670s killed one fifth of the population of Boston. smallpox also causes a high fever, and a rash of large spots. People who survived the disease werre often disfigured by 'pock-marks' when they recovered. Diptheria was another serious disease that was common at this time (known as 'putrid fever') it caused a mucous membrane to form in the throat which caused difficutly in breathing, it was something that children often died from. Consumption (tuberculosis) was another common deadly disease, causing coughing and bleeding from the lungs and weakness. Measles was another common disease that although not as lethal as smallpox could often be deadly in those days. it caused a high fever and a red rash.
There had been a wave of diseases at the time of the Salem witch trials, disease was one of the many things that could trigger a witch hunt, witch hunts normally occured when conditions were bad due to disease, crop failures, etc. People began looking for scapegoats.
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