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“September 1510, Cordoba (Spain)”
- Sofia's Clinic –
In her clinic, which was full of medicine bottles, Sofia was busy caring for two black death patients whose arm had been scabbed. She wore special clothes to protect herself from the black death and wore a mask resembling a bird's head, dripping some drugs she had taken from bottles into the patient's mouth. In the Middle Ages, facing a black death that had not yet been cured meant facing perhaps the most horrific of deaths in those ages. In particular, the black death, transmitted by rats arriving on ships, certainly resulted in a painful death if it was not diagnosed and treated early. Moreover, the deceased was cremated and buried in a deep pit after lime was poured on it in order to prevent germs from the deceased patients.
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