In order to stop the spread of the bubonic plague, people were placed in

An isolation ward.

Those who showed signs of the Bubonic Plague were placed in isolation wards to, well, isolate those who had chances of spreading the plague. This was to separate the healthy from the sick and prevent the plague from spreading through contact.

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

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