I cover the history of science and exploration. Plague doctors were government contractors. When the plague struck a European town, the local government hired a doctor specifically to treat plague ...

Plague doctors would use a staff to point out buboes ... otherwise why would we have used it for so long? As a sales tactic, it can be especially potent when wielded by scammers and practitioners ...

In Italy and France during the 17th century, the plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of the bubonic plague. He would dawn a plague mask which usually resembled the face of a white ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fortnite has brought back its long-lost plague doctor character set for the first time in more than three years, following a believed forced absence during the Covid pandemic. Scourge and Plague ...