You're Creeping Me Out

23. Royal Testers: Kissing Chair Seats and Snorting Scabs

You're Creeping Me Out

Show Notes

This week starts with our creepy things: Cherokee's haunted house and the great rotting meat fire in Los Angeles. for our main topic this week, Cherokee is talking all about royal testers. We start with food testers, water testers, seat and utensil kissers in medieval England. Then we jump over to 18th century Vienna where a bunch of orphans got to be the lucky unknown testers of the first smallpox inoculations. And we round the episode out in Victorian England with a chloroform guinea pig. We are always open to new topic suggestions... Follow us on instagram:http://www.instagram.com/yourecreepingmeout SOURCES: https://www.thehistoryreader.com/cultural-history/killing-the-king-with-cuisine-henry-viii/ https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-history/anesthesia-la-reine https://epi-snow.ph.ucla.edu/Stream4_Snowlife_d.html https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/battle-against-smallpox https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200928-how-the-first-vaccine-was-born https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa

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