The Roman Times
June 1348
Reporter
IMAVI SHANAYA.W
talks to local doctor
DR. ARTHUR
SOLOVON about the
horrible Black Death.
What struck our society? The Black Death
Dr. Arthur Solovon was kind
physician who wore a heavy floor
doctors from contracting the
enough to let Imavi Shanaya.W
–length coat, a hat, and a bird
Black Death. “It’s great, I can
interview him on the awful
like beak that had a strong
help so many more people, with
Black Death.
smelling scent in it. He said that
what I’m wearing”
it would protect him from
WHY DO YOU WEAR THIS
contracting the Black Death and
STRANGE COSTUME WHEN
also from coming into contact
VISITING YOUR PATIENTS?
with bad smells. Dr. A.S told me
Dr. A.S wore the most
about how he believed that if he
magnificent pieces of clothing
smelt nice strong substances
which scared and amused many
rather than dead rotting corpses
people in Rome. Dr. A.S was a
it would help him and all other
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE FAMOUS DR. ARTHUR
SOLOVON
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Interviewee Questions
1. Why do you wear this strange
costume when visiting your
patients?
2. Why do you think the Black
Death is killing so many people,
so rapidly?
3. What do you use to try and
cure a victim with the Black
Death?
“IT’S GOD, I JUST KNOW IT”
4. How are people suffering with
WHY DO YOU THINK THE
trying to ask for forgiveness. I
the black death?
BLACK DEATH IS KILLING
know they’ll die, that’s why I
SO MANY PEOPLE, SO
refused to help some of them”.
5. What have the Jews done?
RAPIDLY?
WHAT DO YOU USE TO
The Black Death has killed lots
TRY AND CURE A VICTIM
of people in Rome. It makes it
WITH THE BLACK DEATH?
hard to believe but many people
have many different theories
about why everyone is dying.
“It’s God, I just know it”. I
question Dr. A.S about how the
local priest’s were dying and this
is what he had to say. “Lots of
people are dying and when
God’s people are dying, there
has to be a reason. He’s
punishing us for all our wrong
doings and the flagellants are
Many people use herbs for
cooking and medicines. We get
the herbs from monasteries
and/or convents. Besides taking
or using the herbs the most
common one we use is called
blood letting. Blood letting
cures illnesses and prevents you
from getting the Black Death.
We sometimes use leeches to
suck out the injured persons
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blood or we cut a person’s vein
HOW ARE PEOPLE
and collect their blood in a dish.
SUFFERING WITH THE
We treated the buboes by
PLAGUE?
cutting them open to release the
blood then we put mixture of
crushed dried toads and dried
human faeces.
Many people are dying with the
Black Death. It generally starts
with a headache then the patient
has the chills and a fever. Maybe
they will experience vomiting,
back pain and soreness in the
arms and legs. I found that many
of my patients couldn't stand the
bright light of the sun.
“God being nonexistent”
Within the next sunrise, swellings
appeared. They were hard, painful,
burning lumps on the patient’s
neck, under their arms or on their
inner thighs. Soon they seemed to
turn a black colour, split open and
begin to ooze pus and blood. Some
of them grew to the size of my fist.
WHAT HAVE THE JEWS DONE?
“I don’t think the Jews have done
anything wrong. Many people say
that the Jews poisoned our drinking
water but I still think it’s God. Our
society has turned on each other,
persecution, what nonsense. The
Jewish doctor in Switzerland
confessed to us that he did poison
our drinking water, but I just think
he was lying. Why would he do
that, what garbage? I heard that all
the Jews in that area were rounded
up and they were burned alive. No
wonder God is punishing us”.
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