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University Daily Kansan, April 25, 1983
Prof says plague symptoms hard to detect
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
For 14th-century man, the symptoms of the Black Death were obvious. The problem was they had no cure.
Today, the tables have turned, John Norris, professor and director of the department of History and Science at the University of British Columbia, said Saturday during a speech at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Doctors can cure the black death or bubonic plague, but it is so rare that many doctors do not recognize the symptoms.
corrs said that although cases of the plague were reported during World War II in Africa and Asia, only one case had been recently reported in the United States.
NORRIRE RECCOUNTED THE STORY of a geologist who went to New Mexico and contracted the plague. Doctors did not recognize the symptoms because the plague was so rare, and by the time he got home to Boston, he was dead.
But the number of cases of the plague, said Norris, would remain small because only two places in the
United States have histories of the plague - New Mexico and parts of Colorado.
But for 14th-century Europe, the plague had the perfect conditions to spawn an outbreak. These include port cities, cities between mountains and plains, and places with large rat populations.
population.
The cause of the plague was an infestation of rats and mice, Norris said, that came from Mongolians who had conquered parts of Asia minor by way of the Caspian Sea.
way of the Caspian Sea.
The rats then infected fleas. The insides of the fleas would become brittle, and parts of their plague-infected digestive tracts would break off when the fleas tried to feed on man, causing one of two types of the bubonic plague.
NORRI SAIED THAT ALL victims had high fevers and dark splottes. And depending on where an infected flea had bitten the victim, the skin swelled on either the neck, around the arms or around the groin.
Three quarters of the victims of the first type of the plague died. And those that died did so in three to eight days, he said.
Another type of the plague was similar to the first, but it was accompanied by vomiting blood and a higher fever. All victims who contracted the second type of bubonic plague died within three days.
ined within which the plague, which was first reported in 1346, was not seen from a chemical or biological point of view, he said, but as either God's punishment or a result of the Mongol invasion.
the bishop's thought. The thought that the plague was caused by God's wrath, Norris said, had several effects.
FIRST, THE BELIEF IN witchcraft,
which was almost non-existent before
the advent of the plague, boomed in
England, Switzerland and France, he said.
sahir, according to Norris, dances and drawings of death were revived. Death had become an ideology, he said, a subject of worship.
"There was massive masochistic activity at the time," Norris said. "These people would roll into town and give these big demonstrations. The
effect on the population was tremendous."
The Jews in Europe were also used as scapegoats, he said. People in Germany and southern France held massive slaves of Jews who believed that God would be incrusting his wrath because of the Jews' part in crucifying Christ.
POPULAR OPINION, HOWEVER, differed from the medieval physicians' thoughts on the plague's causes and treatments, Norris said.
Doctors at the time thought that the body was controlled by four substances, or humans, such as blood and phlegm. An imbalance of the humors would cause a personality change or a sickness.
blood was thought to be hot and wet, he said, and because victims of the plague sweated, bloodletting was used as a treatment.
U.S. jails filling at near record rate, report says
WASHINGTON — America's jails are filling up at a near record rate as men during the post-World War II "baby boom" grow into their crimemprone years, their 20s, a Justice Department report said yesterday.
By United Press International
It forecast a worsening prison population through 1990.
The report by the department's Bureau of Justice Statistics showed
412,303 people in state and federal prisons at the end of 1982, an increase of 42,915 from 1961 and the largest growth since counting began in 1925.
The 11.6 percent increase from 1981 was the second highest on record.
THE REPORT SAID MEN from ages 20 to 29 generally are considered the most prison-prone group, adding that "the sheer size of this group could continue to drive up the prison population through at least 1980, as those born in the peak years of the 'baby
boom' pass through their 20s."
The department said that in 1983, the largest single-year age group in the prison population was 23-year-olds, considered related to terms in of terms in of potential.
by more than 2,000 during the year to 17,649 — a 14 percent increase that exceeded that of men. The report attributed the increase in part to stricter application of laws against women and greater involvement of women in drug trafficking and larcenies.
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IT CAUTIONED, HOWEVER, that the growth of the prison population slowed with each successive quarter in 1982, suggesting a possible abatement in the rapid surge of the prison population since the mid-1970s.
The number of women in prison grew
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Medieval merriment marks Museum Dav
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
A man wearing a kilt played bagpipes while a woman clad in medieval garb danced in front of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art yesterday.
The University of Kansas museums offered a day of medieval merriment yesterday to celebrate International Museum Day.
At the Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall, shouts of "hear ye, hear ye" beckoned people to listen to a storyteller, accompanied by her horse, as she told tales of the Vikings and Norsemen.
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF SPENCER MUSEUM'S central court, the University of Kansas Collegium Musicum performed medieval Gregorian chants, love songs and religious music.
and reglations. The costumed group performed vocal and instrumental selections from the 13th through 15th centuries with lutes, recorders and other early instruments.
After the concert, demonstrations of wreath making, flower twining, basket weaving and brass rubbings began.
Visitors could have their palm read, their fortune told, or sample a plowman's lunch of bread, sausage, cheese, a cookie and cider.
meese, a comote
A wooden spinning wheel and
different types of wool, such as camel and cashmere, were used in a demonstration on spinning wool for thread.
Outside, a jugger performed and people could start their own medieval gardens by planting herb seeds in little pots.
IN THE "GARDENS OF THE Middle Ages" exhibit, characters on the medieval tapestries were brought to life by students from University Theatre modeling clothes of times past. The show is for Creative Anachronism also walked through the galleries dressed in clothes of the period.
EXHIBITS SHOWING THE USES of herbs and other medieval plants, along with a calligraphy demonstration where visitors could try their talents, were inside the museum.
sally Hoffmann, program coordinator for Spencer Art Museum, said she did not know how many people were at the events, but she guessed more than 500 had been at the museum before the concert ended and the activities started.
The events were financed by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Spencer Museum Corporate and Business program.
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