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Pestilence Chronicles: Remedies and Riddles
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- 1. Masked medical figure emblematic of 17th-century pestilence wards.
- 2. Zoonotic disease once thought to be divine punishment, spores in soil.
- 6. Old-fashioned compound once used against syphilis, toxic yet popular.
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- 3. Historical therapy believed to balance bodily humors, often fatal.
- 4. Rash resembling measles, a symptom clue hidden in descriptive dermatology.
- 5. Precursor to vaccination involving controlled exposure to smallpox.
- 7. Forty days' isolation derived from Venetian port health measures.
- 8. Form of plague marked by swollen lymph nodes, notorious in history.
- 9. Bark source of quinine, a remedy for malaria’s relentless assault.
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