The plague doctor costume looks like a cross between a steampunk crow and the Grim Reaper, and has come to represent both the terrors of the Black Death and the foreignness of medieval medicine.

Doctors are said to have embraced this look, thanks in part to the Black Death, which ravaged the Middle East, Asia, and Europe during the 14th century. However, there’s no concrete evidence ...

Plague doctors filled their masks with theriac ... which killed up to 10,000 people a day circa A.D. 561; the Black Death, which wiped out up to a third of Europeans between 1334 and 1372 and ...

Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a ... For Entertainment News, TV News, and Lifestyle Tips visit Etimes Also called 'Black Death' and 'Pestilence' and 'Great Mortality', the Bubonic ...

One of the most distinctive masks worn during the Carnival of Venice is “Il Medico della Peste,” or “The Plague Doctor.” But the distinctive bone-white mask and black clothing was actually ...

Some doctors burst the buboes of patients with bubonic plague. There is some evidence that this may have helped increase chances of survival. To try and stop the spread of Black Death, fines were ...

Experience a working day as plague doctor Oswald Keller in medieval Germany ... It is not without danger, but it is the only way to find out the cause of the “Black Death.” ...

The Black Death ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions. Plague outbreaks in Europe then continued until the 19th century. One of the most commonly recited facts about the plague in ...

Wippra is a historical town in central Germany and the setting for this fairly short medieval point-and-click adventure about a doctor battling against the ravages of the plague. Developed by German ...