What is a cardiac stress test using medicine? Medicine will be used to stress your heart instead of exercise. This medicine will increase your heart rate and/or open up (dilate) the heart arteries. This test may show evidence of blockages in the heart arteries when the heart is stressed. You can be scheduled for one of the following:
The Black Death or Black Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346â53.
slide 1 of 3. Bubonic Plague. The Black Death - also known as the bubonic plague - was a disease that devastated Medieval Europe like no other. Between 1346 and 1352 it killed 45 million people, wiping out a third of Europe's population. Even today just mentioning the word black death or black plague sends shudders of horror through adults and children alike and reflects on the plague's swiftness and terrible ferocity in how it killed its victims.