However the most distinctive part of the outfit was the headgear. Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a beak-like ...

Plague doctors in the 17th Century believed the beak-like masks filled with perfume and herbs protected them One person wrote: "Scared the life out of my missus. Terrifying for kids." Another ...

Plague Doctor’ synopsis is as follows: “In present-day St. Petersburg, police major Igor Grom, an honest and skilled cop with ...

Live coronavirus updates across the East of England Doctors treating those with the Black Death believed the bird-like mask acted as a filter against the disease. Plague doctors believed the beak ...

However, everything changes dramatically with the appearance of the man in the Plague Doctor mask. Declaring that his city is "sick with the plague of lawlessness," he sets about "treating" it by ...

During the Bubonic plague in the Middle Ages, some European doctors wore beak-like masks to protect against “miasma”, what they called air pollution linked to rotting matter and bad smells.

A protective mask used by doctors during the 17th century when they called on patients suffering from the plague. The quality of air was also blamed for the spread of plague - bad, stinking air ...