Assignment
Read all of the primary sources provided for each disease episode. Answer the following questions [in a written essay of 4-5 pages]:
1. How do the sources describe the disease?
2. According to the osurces, how is the disease being treated?
3. According to the sources, what impact(s) is the disese having on individuals and/or the society?
Black Death
Primary Sources Boccaccio, The Decameron, Introduction The Black Death and the Jews, 1348-1349 CE The Black Death: A Description of the Plague Jean de Venette on the Progress of the Black Death Marchione di Coppo Stefani, The Florentine Chronicle, Concerning A Mortality In The City Of Florence In Which Many People Died Pistoia, "Ordinances For Sanitation In A Time Of Mortality" The Black Death: Another Description Gabriele de' Mussi on the Plague Francesco Petrarca: Ad Seipsum (To Himself)
Primary Sources
Boccaccio, The Decameron, Introduction
The Black Death and the Jews, 1348-1349 CE
The Black Death: A Description of the Plague
Jean de Venette on the Progress of the Black Death
Marchione di Coppo Stefani, The Florentine Chronicle, Concerning A Mortality In The City Of Florence In Which Many People Died
Pistoia, "Ordinances For Sanitation In A Time Of Mortality"
The Black Death: Another Description
Gabriele de' Mussi on the Plague
Francesco Petrarca: Ad Seipsum (To Himself)
Smallpox
Influenza
Primary Sources A Letter from Camp Devens, Massachusetts The Deadly Virus The Spanish flu sweeps across Wisconsin in 1918 The State Board of Health seeks to contain influenza, 1918 Health suggestions to help contain the spread of influenza in 1918 The Board of Health reports on the flu The 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive
A Letter from Camp Devens, Massachusetts
The Deadly Virus
The Spanish flu sweeps across Wisconsin in 1918
The State Board of Health seeks to contain influenza, 1918
Health suggestions to help contain the spread of influenza in 1918
The Board of Health reports on the flu
The 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive
AIDS
