ified as a bubonic form. The plague's "incubation period from time of infection to appearance of the first symptoms is generally about six days"'(Gottfried8). The first symptom are blackish pustule are seen at the point of the bite, there by coining the name the Black Death. Soon the lymph nodes, armpits, neck, and groin begin to swell depending on the placement of the bite. Spontaneous hemorrhaging will then occur, producing cell necrosis and an intoxication of the nervous system. This will lead to psychological and neurological damages. Swelling of the glands is the ultimate cause of death(Gottfried 8). Although the duration from initial infection to time of death is considerably short (6-8 days) the pain and psychotic behavior accompanying the plague is almost u!
             Opinions on the primary factor in the spread of the disease varied from person to person. Factual evidence supports the transmission of the disease as being most prevalent through rats and fleas. The Bacillus, "an organism, most usually carried by rodents i.e. fleas infests the animal (rats, but other rodents as well), and these fleas move freely over to human hosts. The flea then regurgitates the blood from the rat into the human, infecting the human. The rat dies. The human dies. The flea lives a long happy life"(Knox3). A Paris based medical report written in 1349 supported the belief that the disease was air born. Saying that any who breaths the air of the sick who is close to death will inevitable die as well. The report also states that the cold climate in the northern hemisphere did not give plants ample time to ripen, therefore the fruit fermented in the stomach and created a moisture that draws blood into the liver which cause sickness (Cipolla32).
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