In the 14th Century, doctors would have been easily identifiable ... The doctors may have thought that dressing up in a bird-like gas mask, the plague would be transferred from the patient to ...

To safeguard themselves against miasma, as they called this harmful air, doctors donned a curious accessory while treating sickly patients: a mask with a long, bird-like beak, which was stuffed ...

and performed autopsies—and some did so while wearing beaked masks. Charles de Lorme, a plague doctor who treated 17th century royals, is often credited with the uniform. Their head gear was ...

Even though the Black Death of the 14th century is estimated to ... for the curve to flatten. Where the masks of looming death once worn by plague doctors are far from this eery present as people ...

as a standard character in theatres since the 17th century. Related: The science of the 10 plagues The plague doctor getup, and especially the beaked mask, has become one of the most popular ...

In the 14th century, the bubonic plague swept through the Middle ... dr costume became emblematic of the era. The bird like mask worn by doctors held dried roses, herbs like mint or spices thought ...

This is a 17th-century German or Austrian plague doctor mask, from the collection of the ... worked in Venice during the Black Death of the 14th century, five died and 12 fled.

The history of masks is in many ways a history of epidemiology. While the plague doctors of the 17th century certainly had a scary getup, de Lorme’s miasma-inspired leather overcoat and bird ...

A 14th-century plague doctor faced risks far higher than mine ... We look at each other behind masks and think, consciously or not, of the infectious contrail we each leave behind.

Today we know that plague is primarily transmitted to humans by infected rat fleas, but doctors in the 14th century commonly attributed the disease to poison in the air. Easily treated by ...