Doctors During the Black Death

How did the doctors deal with the black death?

People with the disease were locked into their houses with their entire family. A big red cross would get painted on the door to show that they are infected, and there were guards that were placed outside those doors, so no one could get in and no one could get out.
The doctors who were to deal with the disease wore an early version of a hazmat suit. Doctors did not go into the houses of people with the Black Death as they didn't want to catch the disease. The doctors left family members to look after the victims and generally served as a visual warning to the public of the presence of an infected person or persons. 

The Doctors suggested many cures, some of them are:

 Carry Flowers or wear a strong perfume- The smells would help to ward away the disease (Result: Nothing)

Drink hot drinks- The victim would then sweat out the disease (Result: Nothing)
Carry a lucky charm- The charm would ward off the disease (Result:Nothing)
Use leeches to bleed the victim- This would remove infected blood (Result: Nothing)
Smoke a pipe of tobacco- The smoke would ward off the disease (Result: Nothing)
Give a strong dose of laxatives- This would cause the victim to completely empty his bowels, thus removing the disease. (Result: Strong doses of laxatives can cause death from dehydration.)
Coat the victims with mercury and place them in the oven- The combination of mercury and heat from the oven would kill off the disease. (Result: This could actually cause serious burns.)

But none of them worked. The Doctors couldn't find a cure for black death so the people started believing that this is a punishment from God. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_doctors_deal_with_the_plague#

Image 1: The Plague Doctor

Image 1 is a primary source because this was a newspaper article during the Black Death. A plague doctor would have worn a beak doctor costume in his role as a specialized doctor. He was known then as a “Beak Doctor”. The protective suit consisted of a heavy fabric overcoat that was waxed, a mask of glassed eye openings and a cone shaped like a beak to hold scented substances. Some of the scented materials were amber, balm-mint leaves, camphor, cloves, laudanum, myrrh, rose petals, and storax.A wooden cane pointer was used to help examine the patient without touching.The image shows us how the Plague Doctor (Plague doctor is also refereed to the doctor who deals with the Black Death) in a Hazmit suit, they needed to wear this to protect themselves from the people who were affected by the Black Death.   http://theloveforhistory.com/other/the-great-plague/plague-doctor/