Medieval doctors did not know about microorganisms, and since they had no idea what caused the Plague, they had no idea as to how to help its victims.
Doctors did exist at the time of the medieval black plague, however, they did not know anything about the cause or treatment of the plague, and were useless. Medical science was extremely primitive at that period of history.
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Pope did not know the reason. Doctors also did not know the reason or cure.
1894
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The bubonic plague was the most common type of plague. Known as the most deadly epidemic ever known. Many doctors believed that bad smells would make the plague go away. Jews had a smaller chance of getting the plague because they owned cats who ate the rats. Fleas landed on and infected rats, which consequently started the plague. Some doctors believed that wine could cure the plague. The plague led into the Renaissance. It wiped out 1/3 of Europe. It took 150 years for Europe to recover. The plague caused the economy to fall.
No one actually cured the plague but some doctors believed that isolation was necessary as it would prevent the disease from being passed around
Many of them were not really doctors, but Black Death doctors that went around doing blood lettind while trying to cure the Plague.
According to the Thief Lord, they were called Birds of Death.
They tried to treat the plague by cutting open the skin and letting the blood leak out. They thought that the blood was the reason for the black boils on the skin.