If you were one of the unlucky souls to come down with the buboes and high fever symptomatic of the disease, a visit from the plague doctor may have been in your future. Copper engraving of Doctor ...

Developed by German indie game maker, Electrocosmos, The Plague Doctor of Wippra is an expanded version of ... such as smoke or sunlight are rendered in smoother and more lifelike animated detail. The ...

Their iconic and ominous look, as depicted in this 1656 engraving of a Roman doctor, is recognizable to this day. The plague was once the most feared disease in the world, capable of wiping out ...

With their dark, heavy robes and beaked masks, the plague doctor will forever be associated with the bubonic plague, even though they first appeared in France and Italy in the 1600s, nearly 300 ...

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 ...