There were others who walked about, carrying flowers,
herbs or spices, which they often raised to their noses. They believed this
was an excellent thing because the air seemed full of the stink of the dead
and dying, and the smell of drugs.There were others who walked about, carrying flowers,
herbs or spices, which they often raised to their noses. They believed this
was an excellent thing because the air seemed full of the stink of the dead
and dying, and the smell of drugs.
Others believed that the cure was
to drink freely, to go out in public, enjoy themselves and to laugh at everyone.
There were some people who banded
together and cut themselves off in houses where there were no sick people.
They lived a separate life, eating and drinking only a reasonable amount.
Some others said that the best medicine
for the disease was to get away. So many men and women deserted their houses
and their relations and went to the country.