Why were the doctors letting the victims of the disease die?

        The surgeons were SURPRISED and caught off guard. They were panicky but their panic only made things WORSE. The only thing they thought of doing and what they thought they could do was warn the Europeans about the plague’s coming. The surgeons and doctors told the people to close and board up their windows and cover them with heavy curtains to keep the sickness in the air out. PLUS the European people had to STOP taking baths! They were told by the doctors that having their pores closed up would keep the sickness out of them.

NOBODY had known what to do; the disease came on so suddenly. I have learned that the rats with the fleas that carried the disease hid in sailors’ clothes while they sailed back across to Europe after trading. Then the sickness arose into the towns and cities and MILLIONS DIED.