A cosplayer wearing the long, black nose of a plague doctor poses with a woman in a face mask for a ...More photo at the Middle East Film & Comic Con in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday ...

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! Discover the medically ...

Plague doctors filled their masks with theriac, a compound of more than 55 herbs and other components like viper flesh powder, cinnamon, myrrh, and honey.

Plague Doctors, with infamous beak masks, are a commonly associated with the Black Death. However, these costumes were far less common and emerged much later, in the 17th century. (Image credit ...

Plague Doctor Meets Bird of Paradise: Thomas Finney Is Making the Wildest Masks We’ve Seen Yet. ... “I wanted to explore the 2020 version of those scary plague-doctor masks,” he says.

Long ago, European physicians believed that "bad air" caused illnesses—scientists like Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister hadn’t yet delivered scientific proof of the germ theory of ...

BEAK EXPERIENCE From left: An ‘antipollution mask’ from Marine Serre’s fall 2020 collection; a 17th-century plague doctor in his protective mask; a mesh cover from Louis Vuitton’s spring ...