(Today, you might recognize it from the “plague doctor ... eyes. The suffocating clothing ensemble was designed to protect the skin from exposure to miasma (the coat was even tucked into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The plague doctor’s face gear marks an important moment in the history of the medical mask. The beak ... This eventually led Prussian mining official (and all-around Renaissance man) Alexander ...

Police have identified a plague doctor prankster who terrified children ... black overcoat with a wide-brimmed hat and a pointed mask with eye openings and a beak-shaped nose.

This is a 17th-century German or Austrian plague doctor mask, from the collection of the ... They had glass lenses over the eyes and a cone-shaped protuberance over the nose and mouth with two ...