Around 1347-1348, the most famous epidemic struck the European world. The Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black Death or Black Death, rained disease on millions of people; for most people, death was the only way out of illness. The Black Death is known as one of the most depressing events in history. It addresses the three most important aspects of a person's well-being, namely their mental, emotional and physical health. While the plague had an impact on primitive society, authors Jean de Venette and Giovanni Boccaccio described the epidemic in their own words. The modern author, Charles L. Mee Jr., describes the plague with the scientific knowledge available to him in today's society. These three authors wrote about the bubonic plague with their own voices and reasoning, but many of the stories they mention are similar to each other. Jean de Venette, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Charles L. Mee Jr. explain the symptoms, causes, and how people acted because of the Black Death. As with any other diagnosed illness, the first way to know if a person is sick is from their symptoms. If the symptoms match the description of the illness, the person usually receives an accurate diagnosis of that illness. Venette and Boccaccio similarly describe the symptoms of the Black Death. Venette describes the only symptoms of the Black Death as swelling in the groin and armpits, sometimes both. This is a very vague description as no other warnings or symptoms are explained. Similarly, Boccaccio also mentions the appearance of swellings or tumors in the armpits and groins. However, Boccaccio incorporates more information that in the East people had nosebleeds instead of tumors in the groin and armpits. Boccaccio too...... middle of paper...... was there before it was too late. Similar to Boccaccio, Mee also lists the multiple reactions people demonstrate. Fathers and mothers would abandon their children, people would swallow the pus of plague victims, and, sick or not, citizens would be trapped in their homes, left for dead. Mee discusses the extremes people would go to keep the plague from infecting them. As noted in Mee's article, once the plague had hit a town, it was every man for himself. Whether it was a parent and child or a husband and wife, the plague made no distinction between those it would infect and those who would not. Venette, Boccaccio, and Mee each describe how the Black Death affected society in different ways. Citizens who were lucky enough to survive the outbreak took major precautions against infection and many of these precautions became extreme measures..