In “Chanda’s Secrets”, by Allan Stratton, the topic of focus is HIV/AIDS. A historical event I have studied relating to HIV/AIDS is the black death, also known as the bubonic plague. Although HIV/AIDS and the bubonic plague are very different diseases, they have many similarities as well. The bubonic plague was treated much differently in the past than it is today. Many odd remedies in the past were tried, including rubbing chopped up snake, onions, or herbs on the boils, cutting up a pigeon and rubbing it on the affected body, eating arsenic, crushed minerals, and mercury, sitting in a sewer or close to a fire to drag out the fever, laying herbs in the house to purify the air, whipping yourself if you believed in God to rid of sin, and bursting