The haunting history of plague doctors and their beaked masks
However the most distinctive part of the outfit was the headgear. Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a beak-like ...
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The Truth Behind the Plague Doctor's Mask
The Plague Doctor’s eerie beak mask was designed to protect against ... Discover the medically obsolete Miasma theory and the haunting history of the Plague Doctor. USPS Announces Changes ...
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Masking Up, 1619 to Present
A 1619 outbreak of plague in France, rooted largely in Paris, led to the first medical mask. As the disease killed some 80 percent of those it afflicted, French doctor Charles De Lorme invented an ...
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Early pandemics: the plague
The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history ... as the protective clothes and masks worn by modern doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The plague doctors wore long leather ...