Across
- 1. Another name for the Black Death
- 4. Animals that carried fleas and helped spread the disease
- 5. A deadly pandemic that spread through Europe in the 1300s
- 11. A medieval medical practice that removed blood
- 14. A collection of stories told by people escaping the plague in Florence
- 15. The time period when the Black Death occurred
- 16. The bacterium that caused the disease
- 17. Swollen lymph nodes seen in infected patients
- 18. A symptom involving high body temperature
Down
- 2. An early example of spreading disease by launching infected bodies over city walls during a siege
- 3. The writer who described the plague in Florence
- 6. Small structures in the body that swell when fighting infection
- 7. A practice where sick people were isolated to stop the spread
- 8. The type of organism that causes the plague
- 9. The body system affected that caused swollen nodes
- 10. Tiny insects that transmitted the bacteria
- 12. Movement of people and goods that helped spread the disease
- 13. The part of the plague doctor mask filled with herbs to filter “bad air”