She painted bunnies with face masks, children in beaked plague doctor masks and oil paintings on pieces of toilet paper. “It’s really easy to want to hide from it and pretend it’s not ...

With their dark, heavy robes and beaked masks, the plague doctor will forever be associated ... You could copy it onto a scrap of paper and carry it on your body, for instance." ...

Illustration: Public Domain The plague doctors’ uniform didn’t ... On February 22, 1899, Berger read a paper, “On the Use of a Mask in Operating,” before the Surgical Society of Paris.

The Plague Doctor’s eerie beak mask was designed to protect against “evil” smells thought to cause disease. But the truth behind this creepy costume will shock you!

Doctors treating those infected with the plague believed the creepy mask acted as a filter against the disease.

Their head gear was particularly unusual: Plague doctors wore spectacles, de Lorme continued, and a mask with a nose “half a foot long, shaped like a beak, filled with perfume with only two ...

The same gift shop offered a paper-mache version of the mask for sale to tourists like me. Engraving of the Plague Doctor, Paul Fürst, c. 1656. The plague doctor stands in stark contrast to most ...

Believing the plague spread through miasma, or bad air, doctors wore elaborate costumes with beak-like masks filled with aromatic substances to protect themselves. Also called 'Black Death' and ...

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 ...