An even more iconic image of a plague doctor is Paulus Fürst’s satirical 1656 engraving called "Doctor Schnabel von Rom," or "Doctor Beaky from Rome." Copied from Altzenbach's illustration ...

Illustration: Public Domain The plague doctors’ uniform didn’t exactly inspire a sense of calm. They wore a head-to-toe leather overcoat paired with leather gloves, breeches, boots ...

In 1896, Bombay (now Mumbai) battled an outbreak of bubonic plague. For many months ... But another part of the drawing shows doctors fleeing the city, worried about becoming infected themselves.

This is a 17th-century German or Austrian plague doctor mask, from the collection of the Deutches Historisches Museum. (Anagoria/GNU Free Documentation License) Since the onset of the pandemic ...

(Today, you might recognize it from the “plague doctor” costumes worn during the Carnival of Venice, as it’s associated with Il Medico della Peste, the famous commedia dell’arte character.) ...

With Halloween just around the corner, seeing people dressed in scary outfits will shortly become more common. However, context is important and attendees at the Infectious Diseases Week (IDWeek ...

Wong Chung, a former secretary for the Chinese Six Companies, had previously served as an interpreter to a commission of white doctors, assisting them in finding the first living plague patients.

Police have identified a plague doctor prankster who terrified children by walking the streets of Norwich dressed as a 17th century medic as a teenager boy. The teenager had been spotted strolling ...

The finding raises the possibility that a new strain of plague could infect humanity again in the future. The Justinian plague struck in the sixth century and is estimated to have killed between ...