How did people try to cure themselves from the black plague?
Others thought plague came from bad air; advice included to: stay away from marshes, swamps, and other bodies of still water where air is dense, keeping windows with a northern exposure open to let in good air, and keeping southern windows closed. Physician John Cole became famous when he pointed out that attendants that cleaned latrines and worked in hospitals and other odorous places were considered immune, and declared that the only antidote for plague was bad air. One of the most surreal images to come from Black Death is of groups of people crouched at the edge of public latrines inhaling the fumes.
