The correct answer is "Wrap in red cloth and drape red hangings around the bed"

Draping colored cloths from the bed and around a person infected with smallpox was a treatment that may have been related to magic and witchcraft. Or it could have been related to that fact that smallpox patients suffered from photophobia--the colored cloths may have protected them from the light.

Black magic, the occult, witchcraft, and necromancy (the last derived from the ancient Egyptians) were used both as remedies and as means of creating illnesses, even death. However, anyone engaging in these practices could be tried, imprisoned, or executed.

Astrology played a role in health and medicine in the later Middle Ages. It became especially important after the Black Death, when it was relied upon to forecast the spread of the disease. A person born under a sign of the moon, for example, might be prone to worry, frequent colds, and insanity, whereas people born under other signs of the zodiac could be prone to skin diseases or phlegmatic.

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