6. what methods did people use
to stop the spread of the plague

people used to do :

I.Rubbing onions, herbs or a chopped up snake (if available) on the boils or cutting up a pigeon and rubbing it over an infected body.

II.Drinking vinegar, eating crushed minerals, arsenic, mercury or even ten-year-old treacle!

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