St. Francis of Assisi treats people with leprosy in this illustration from 1474. This image is commo
St. Francis of Assisi treats people with leprosy in this illustration from 1474. This image is commonly used to illustrate stories about the Black Death, even though the Black Death did not look like this – generally, plague victims would have had black, swollen buboes, not red sores. There are actually very few (if any) images of the symptoms of the plague of the 1340s-1350s.{WHF} {HTE} -- source link
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