The haunting history of plague doctors and their beaked masks
Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a ... For Entertainment News, TV News, and Lifestyle Tips visit Etimes Also ...
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Early pandemics: the plague
The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic ... and the plague that is ravaging Europe has arrived in Scotland. George Rae, a plague doctor, is standing Leith outside one of the isolation ...
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Plague transmission may have begun a century before the Black Death, study shows
Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...
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Causes and effects of the Black Death
Some doctors burst the buboes of patients with bubonic plague. There is some evidence that this may have helped increase chances of survival. To try and stop the spread of Black Death, fines were ...