Medicine in the medieval period - The Black Death

... Rachel Preston MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD The Black Death In the 14th Century, trade around Europe was increasing ships regularly and travelled from the Mediterranean to other parts of Europe. In 1348 one ship brought a devastating plague to England. Source 1-Written by a monk from Malmesbury in Wiltshire, in the 1350's: "In 1348, at about the feast of the Translation of St Thomas the Martyr (7 July) the cruel pestilence, hateful to all future ages, arrived from the countries across the sea on the South coast of England at the Port called Melcombe in Dorset. Travelling all over the South country it wretchedly killed innumerable people in Dorset, Devon and Somerset...next it came to Bristol, where very few were left alive, and then travelled Northwards, leaving not a city, a town, a village, or even, except rarely, a house, without killing most or all of the people there so that over England as

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