DESPITE it coming to an end 351 years ago, memories of the Black Death still haunt England ... saw doctors wearing the now iconic 'beak masks'. These bird like facial coverings featured a huge ...

To safeguard themselves against miasma, as they called this harmful air, doctors donned a curious accessory while treating sickly patients: a mask with ... in part to the Black Death, which ...

(We now know that rats and fleas were responsible for spreading the Black Death.) The doctors may have thought that dressing up in a bird-like gas mask, the plague would be transferred from the ...

From the Black Death to the Present. “A wide-brimmed hat could defend the head, and a mask with a protruding beak extending from the nose could carry aromatic herbs that would protect the wearer ...

While it may seem silly today, when Hippocrates defined the four humors—blood, black bile ... the plague doctor more with death than healing. The mask, with its skull-like visage, certainly ...