For more Halloween costumes for men on this order ... If you want to give trick-or-treaters a good scare, then this plague doctor costume is sure to do the trick … especially after the last ...

In Italy and France during the 17th century, the plague doctor was a physician who treated ... While it is widely debated among historians if this costume was in fact used frequently by plague ...

Despite its fearsome appearance, the plague doctor’s costume — the “personal protective ... faced risks far higher than mine. Of the 18 men registered as plague doctors in Venice in 1348 ...

The plague doctor costume looks like a cross between a steampunk crow and the Grim Reaper, and has come to represent both the terrors of the Black Death and the foreignness of medieval medicine.

It’s not as a doctor plying noble trade that has given the costume its staying power. Plague equaled death, and when you have black garbed doctors roaming around with giant protruding mask noses ...

It caught on elsewhere in continental Europe (there are no known examples from the UK) and became the iconic Plague Doctor costume we know today. To people who understand how bacteria and viruses ...