To safeguard themselves against miasma, as they called this harmful air, doctors ... plague. The nose [is] half a foot long, shaped like a beak, filled with perfume with only two holes, one on ...

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 holes, one on each side near the nostrils ...

The magazine quoted Charles de Lorme, a 17th-century plague doctor, who described the mask as "half a foot long, shaped like a beak, filled with perfume with only two holes, one on each side near ...

With Halloween just around the corner, seeing people dressed in scary outfits will shortly become more common. However, context is important and attendees at the Infectious Diseases Week (IDWeek ...

This is a 17th-century German or Austrian plague doctor mask, from the collection ... the nose and mouth with two small holes on either side to let air in. De Lorme, of course, invented this ...

One of the most distinctive masks worn during the Carnival of Venice is “Il Medico della Peste,” or “The Plague Doctor ... one on each side near the nostrils, but that can suffice ...

What doctors didn't know was that they were probably doing more harm than good—spreading the plague even more by exposing more people to their plague-covered articles of clothing. In the 14th ...