Across
- 2. Drops 19th-century “remedy” for teething children
- 3. 9th-century trial in which a pope put a corpse on trial
- 7. Creatures Napoleon supposedly dreaded
- 9. Leech-heavy “cure” for imbalanced humors
- 11. Medieval cure for fever: dip your stockings in vinegar and wear them
- 12. Ancient Roman dental cleaner, oddly enough
- 13. Ancient people who mapped the stars on a flat Earth?
- 19. City once used underground tunnels as an overflow cemetery
- 20. Toxic cosmetic favored by Elizabeth I for a “pearly” complexion
Down
- 1. “Unsinkable” ship that sank in 1912
- 4. 1518 Strasbourg epidemic where people literally danced to death
- 5. Old carnival game involving decapitating suspended poultry
- 6. Spice once touted as a cure-all
- 8. 17th-century Dutch craze that crashed an economy over flowers
- 10. Imaginary lunar beings “discovered” in an 1835 hoax
- 14. Medieval affliction blamed on witches and the moon
- 15. Macabre 19th-century fad for mourning beverages
- 16. 18th-century belief that hygiene made you sick
- 17. Roman emperor once tried to use snails as messengers
- 18. Radioactive “health tonic” sold in the early 1900s